Beginning in 1897, the Supreme Court slowly began to use the protection of "life, liberty, or property" in what clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to incorporate some of the provisions of the Bill of Rights as binding on the states?

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The clause in question is the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which states that no state shall "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." The Supreme Court began to use this clause to apply certain provisions of the Bill of Rights to state governments, a process known as incorporation.

Beginning in 1897, the Supreme Court Slowly Began to Use