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Supreme Court began to apply the guarantees of the Bill of Rights to the states. The court based ots actions on due process of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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the 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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Supreme court case, the Court ruled that the freedom of the press offered by the national Bill of Rights had to be offered by every state as well.
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The supreme Court ruled that freedom of religion provided for in the First Amendment had to be provided by all states.
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The supreme court broadened its interpretations to limit state action in most areas in which national government action is limited.
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