The Fourteenth Amendment

The Fourteenth Amendment

A) forced state governments to abide by all of the provisions in the Bill of Rights immediately after its ratification in 1868.
B) had no effect on state governments because it was designed to apply only to the federal government.
C) forced state governments to abide by almost every provision in the Bill of Rights, but the process took more than 100 years.
D) required states to abide by the First Amendment to the Constitution but not any of the other amendments to the Constitution.