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A constitutional doctrine whereby selected provisions of the Bill of Rights are made applicable to the states through the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The doctrine of selective incorporation, or simply the incorporation doctrine, makes the first ten amendments to the Constitution—known as the Bill of Rights—binding on the states. Through incorporation, state governments largely are held to the same standards as the federal government with regard to many constitutional rights, including the First Amendment freedoms of speech, religion, and assembly, and the separation of church and state; the Fourth Amendment freedoms from unwarranted arrest and unreasonable searches and seizures; the fifth amendment privilege against self-incrimination; and the Sixth Amendment right to a speedy, fair, and public trial. Some provisions of the Bill of Rights—including the requirement of indictment by a Grand Jury (Sixth Amendment) and the right to a jury trial in civil cases (Seventh Amendment)—have not been applied to the states through the incorporation doctrine.
The first amendment states that congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. As recently as 1994 the Supreme Court has upheld the position that state and local government face the same restrictions. Before you go on a rant about how the Constitution doesn't mention states, let me remind you that our courts work under the doctrine of stare decisis--that court decisions and previous case law sets precedents that must be followed, and that rulings by higher courts supersede decisions by lower courts.
The process through which our laws are passed, is taught at the 5th grade level. Its hard to take people seriously who claim to be old enough to be posting here, but doesnt have a 5th grade education.
Then take you complaints about this to a thread under "education."
If NC made a state religion, could they make state laws based on that religion. For example, could they make a law against homosexuality, coveting they neighbors car, etc..?
And it's only "national" in name - I could call myself the National ArchPriest if I wanted to, put it on my business cards, pay for an announcement in the Times, but it doesn't actually make me Pope of America.
So I take it you'd be fine with a state banning guns? What's that, no? Incorporation of the bill of rights only applies to the parts of it that allow you to establish a theocracy where the citizens are armed to the teeth?
More inane arguments. The 2nd A is a Constitutional Right spelled out in the Constitution of the USA. State religions are exactly that. STATE'S RIGHTS. Two completely different things.
Looks like everyone in NC will be required to own at least one snake and bring it to church on Sunday to be lovingly petted and handled.
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