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Supreme Court began to apply the guarentees of the bill of rights. Court based its actions on the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment.
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No state may deny any person any right that is "basic or essential to the American concept of the ordered Liberty." Supreme court gradually began using the due process clause to say that the states could not abridge a right that the national government could not abridge.
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Court ruled that the freedom of the pressoffered by the national Bill of Rights had to be offered by every state as well
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Supreme Court ruled that freedom of religion provided for in the First Amendment had to be provided by all states.
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Supreme Court broadened it interpretations to limit state action in most areas in which national government action is limited.
