Civ Lib Podcast Episode 002
In this episode we tackle the issue of why the First Amendment protects us from not only the federal government, but from the state governments as well. Through the Doctrine of Incorporation, the Supreme Court began to gradually incorporate a number of our civil liberties that were designed to protect us from a powerful federal government and extend those same liberties to protect us from the state governments. The Fourteenth Amendment, (passed during the aftermath of the Civil War as a result o...
Nov 19, 2009