Before the Fourteenth Amendment was added to the Constitution,the civil liberties protections contained in the Bill of Rights were

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Before the Fourteenth Amendment, the civil liberties protections contained in the Bill of Rights were limited by Barron v. Baltimore. This 1833 Supreme Court case ruled that the protections found in the Bill of Rights did not apply to state governments but rather only to the federal government. Therefore, the states were not required to abide by these protections. The Fourteenth Amendment later incorporated many of the Bill of Rights protections and made them apply to state governments as well.

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