In which case did the U.S. Supreme Court suggest that some of the individual rights in the Bill of Rights might be protected from state action not because the Bill of Rights applied to the states but because these rights "are of such a nature that they are included in the conception of due process of law"?

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In Twining v. New Jersey (1908), the U.S. Supreme Court suggested that some rights in the Bill of Rights might be protected from state action under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, even though the Bill of Rights itself was not directly applied to the states. This case introduced the concept of selective incorporation through the Due Process Clause, laying the groundwork for later decisions that would incorporate specific rights against the states.

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