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Article: Incorporation Doctrine
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- West's Encyclopedia of American Law
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INCORPORATION DOCTRINE
A constitutional doctrine whereby selected provisions of the
bill of rights
are made applicable to the states through the
due process clause
of the
fourteenth amendment.
The doctrine of selective incorporation, or simply the incorporation doctrine, makes the first ten amendments to the Constitution
—
known as the Bill of Rights
—
binding on the states. Through incorporation, state governments largely are held to the same standards as the federal government with regard to many constitutional rights, including the first amendment freedoms of speech, religion, and assembly, and the separation of church and state; the fourth amendment freedoms from ...