Exam 10: The Bill of Rights and the Second Amendment

The ______ doctrine originated in Palko v. Connecticut (1937).

What would have been the practical legal and policy consequences for the United States in the late 1940s had Justice Black persuaded one more justice to join his opinion in Adamson v. California?

What is the most recent provision of the Bill of Rights to be applied to the states? ____

Who wrote the majority opinion in McDonald v. City of Chicago? ____

In his exchange of letters with James Madison, Thomas Jefferson mentioned the absence of ______ as something he did not like about the proposed Constitution.

What was the first provision in the Bill of Rights to be applied to the states by way of the Fourteenth Amendment? _____

In the exchange of letters between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in 1787-1789 regarding the desirability of a bill of rights in the proposed Constitution, what was the argument in favor of a bill of rights that Jefferson stressed, that he believed Madison had overlooked? Explain. Hint: it is the same argument Madison employed when he introduced a series of bill-of-rights amendments in the First Congress.