To amplify Guy Smith's point, it is indicative that the articles that became the Bill of Rights were proposed by the various state conventions, many of them basing their proposed amendments on the rights recognized in their own state constitutions. The only question is whether they had the intent of extending federal question jurisdiction of the federal courts. They are responsible for the words they chose, and the words of every one of the Bill of Rights except the first apply to all levels of government, in the absence of language restricting them to one level.
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