AP U.S. Government and Politics / Unit 3: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
3.7 Selective Incorporation
Notes
The Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause has been used to apply most of the Bill of Rights to the states, case by case.
- Examples: Gitlow v. New York (speech), Mapp v. Ohio (exclusionary rule), McDonald v. Chicago (guns).
Practice
Selective incorporation applies the Bill of Rights to:
Through the Fourteenth Amendment.
Incorporation uses the Fourteenth Amendment's:
No state shall deprive liberty without due process.
Incorporation happened:
Selective.
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