“[B]eginning in the 1920s, a series of United States Supreme Court decisions interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment to “incorporate” most portions of the Bill of Rights, making these portions, for the first time, enforceable against the state governments." – from Wikipedia, which I know isn’t perfect, but I’d heard the same thing elsewhere first & just looked for this for confirmation.
“[B]eginning in the 1920s, a series of United States Supreme Court decisions interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment to “incorporate” most portions of the Bill of Rights, making these portions, for the first time, enforceable against the state governments." – from Wikipedia, which I know isn’t perfect, but I’d heard the same thing elsewhere first & just looked for this for confirmation.