In What Way Did the Supreme Court Decide to Apply

question 113

Multiple Choice

In what way did the Supreme Court decide to apply most of civil liberties guaranteed under the Bill of Rights to the states?

• A) After several amendments were added to the Constitution after the Civil War
• B) Over time, mostly in the twentieth century, as the Court incorporated provisions from the Bill of Rights into the Fourteenth Amendment
• C) Over time, after harsh public reaction in the wake of Barron v.Baltimore, an 1883 case in which the Court suggested that the Bill of Rights did not apply to the states
• D) Soon after passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was added to the Constitution after the Civil War

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