The Supreme Court applied the provisions of the Bill of Rights to the states through which of the following processes?

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The process used to apply the provisions of the Bill of Rights to the states is known as incorporation. This means that the protections granted by the Bill of Rights, originally intended only for the federal government, are now also applicable to state governments through the process of selective incorporation, in which the Supreme Court has applied the provisions of the Bill of Rights to the states on a case-by-case basis.

The Supreme Court Applied the Provisions of the Bill of Rights