There Are at Least Three Different Reasons Why the U

Multiple Choice

There are at least three different reasons why the U.S.Supreme Court did not make the Fourteenth Amendment incorporate the Bill of Rights for approximately 100 years.Three are listed below.Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons listed in your textbook?

A) There is little evidence that supporters of the Fourteenth Amendment intended it to incorporate the Bill of Rights
B) It was an issue of states' rights.
C) By 1937, a series of court decisions had established the precedent that the due-process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment did not require states to follow trial procedures mandated at the federal level by provisions in the Bill of Rights.
D) Voters frequently showed their disapproval of following trial procedures mandated by provisions of the Bill of Rights, interpreting them as a possible threat to their civil rights.