For years, I’ve taught students that the Fourteenth Amendment “incorporated” most provisions of the Bill of Rights–meaning that, although the BOR initially restrained only the federal government, after passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court used a series of cases to apply most of those same restrictions to other levels of government.
Category Archives: Random Blogging
The Double Standard
When I was a girl (okay, back in the Ice Age), the term double standard referred to the fact that a teenaged boy who "got some" was regarded as a "real guy"–and was envied by those of his peers who hadn't been so "lucky."
Talk Show Party
Pierre Atlas has sent his most recent column for Real Clear Politics. As usual, he offers a clear-headed analysis, this time, of the current GOP.
The Republican Party is in trouble, and it’s not Colin Powell’s fault.
Talk Show Party
Pierre Atlas has sent his most recent column for Real Clear Politics. As usual, he offers a clear-headed analysis, this time, of the current GOP.
The Republican Party is in trouble, and it’s not Colin Powell’s fault.
Insightful
Most of us who blog here at the AVA, or who visit the site, share a frustration with zealotry. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I have often had difficulty explaining why my allegiance to certain constitutional principles is any different from–or preferable to–the beliefs that (to use an extreme example)led to the murder of Dr. George Tiller.