The Bill of Rights and the States
The 1787 Project - A podcast by Justin Dyer
In Barron v. Baltimore (1833), the Supreme Court highlighted the dominant understanding in the nineteenth century that the limitations on government in the Bill of Rights apply only the national government and not to state governments. Somewhere along the way, that understanding has changed. Over the next few episodes, we'll discuss the complicated story of how we came to apply (most of) the Bill of Rights to the states.
