1. America and the Incorporation of the Bill of Rights
The case made it to the Supreme Court, who ruled that the Fifth Amendment only applied to the federal government, and not the states. ... It is rather interesting that the court ruled this way after the Fourteenth Amendment for a couple of reasons. ... In the dissenting opinion Justice Field said that based on the majority's interpretation the Fourteenth Amendment was, "a vain and idle enactment, which accomplished nothing, and most unnecessarily excited Congress and the people on its passage. " (Kommers et al., 115) The ruling is also interesting because it set a precedent against the i...
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