raise your hand if you support protesting kavenaugh and his SC buddies everywhere they go

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74. Actually they could (and sometimes did) but then...

the 14th Amendment was passed:

Section 1.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Over the years the courts, using the 14th Amendment, significantly changed the division of power between states and the federal government and extended the limitations of the Bill of Rights on the federal government to the states...

As explained by The Bill of Rights Institute ( https://billofrightsinstitute.org/lessons/the-fourteenth-amendment-and-incorporation ):

The Bill of Rights, setting limitations on Congress, originally applied only to the national government. In the effort to protect individual rights of the freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in 1868. It differs from every previous amendment because it limits what state governments may do. Over the next seventy-five years, the Court’s use of the Fourteenth Amendment increased. It used the Due Process clause in that amendment to strike down many state laws and to selectively incorporate parts of the Bill of Rights into the Fourteenth Amendment so as to make them apply to states as well as the federal government. This practice, known as “incorporation,” increased the Supreme Court’s power to define rights for the entire Union, and reduced the power of the states as compared to federal power. It also reduced the power of Congress as opposed to the Supreme Court, to define which rights are properly constitutional. This changed the meaning of the Bill of Rights from a series of limits on government power to a set of rights belonging to the individual and guaranteed by the federal government.

Also note that many states did incorporate in their own state constitutions protections similar to those found in the Bill of Rights prior to the 14th Amendment being passed.