The Bill of Rights was applied to the states effective on the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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The Bill of Rights was originally applied only to the federal government. It was through the doctrine of incorporation, a series of Supreme Court decisions, that most of the Bill of Rights' protections were gradually applied to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment, rather than being applied all at once upon its ratification.

The Bill of Rights Was Applied to the States Effective