There are at least three different reasons that the Supreme Court did not interpret the Fourteenth Amendment as incorporating the Bill of Rights for approximately 100 years. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons given in your textbook?
A. By 1937, a series of court decisions had established the precedent that the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment did not require states to follow trial procedures mandated at the federal level by provisions in the Bill of Rights.
B. There is little evidence that supporters of the Fourteenth Amendment intended it to incorporate the Bill of Rights.
C. It was an issue of states' rights.
D. Voters frequently showed their disapproval of following trial procedures mandated by the provisions of the Bill of Rights, interpreting them as a possible threat to their civil rights.
Answer: D
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