This U.S. Supreme Court case originally ruled that the protections of the Bill of Rights apply only to the actions of the federal government.

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Barron v. Baltimore (1833) established that the Bill of Rights restricted only the federal government, not the states. This interpretation was later modified by the incorporation doctrine, which applied the Bill of Rights to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.

This US Supreme Court Case Originally Ruled That the Protections of of the Bill