Wow,
I am gone for a weekend and this thread is still going? Somebody was talking about Bingham and the 14th amendment with me and I saw their post but then the weekend happened. Not really going back to look it up but I just wanted to point out that the point while Bingham did say that (and a lot of other contradictory things) the same people who passed the amendment and ratified it voted on several amendments afterwards that were designed to apply the BoR to the states. If the people who ratified the 14th intended it to incorporate the BoR then why were those same people writing and trying to ratify that very same thing?
Mike
I am gone for a weekend and this thread is still going? Somebody was talking about Bingham and the 14th amendment with me and I saw their post but then the weekend happened. Not really going back to look it up but I just wanted to point out that the point while Bingham did say that (and a lot of other contradictory things) the same people who passed the amendment and ratified it voted on several amendments afterwards that were designed to apply the BoR to the states. If the people who ratified the 14th intended it to incorporate the BoR then why were those same people writing and trying to ratify that very same thing?
Mike