Incorporation

Incorporation is the process by which the Supreme Court applied the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to extend the protections of the Bill of Rights against state interference. The Bill of Rights was originally intended to limit the powers of the federal government in order to protect the rights of the people and the states. However, it did not protect the rights of the individuals from state or local governments. The Fourteenth Amendment …

…important part of our constitutional system, because it achieved the fundamental purpose of the Constitution. If incorporation did not exist, the states could make laws that violated any and all rights of the citizens. They would not have to abide by the laws of the federal government, and they could make any laws striking down the ones purposed or passed by Congress. Society would return to the way it was when incorporation did not exist.