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Corwin: Liberty Against Government, Michigan Law Review
Corwin: Liberty Against Government, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of LIBERTY AGAINST GOVERNMENT. By Edward S, Corwin .
The Bill Of Rights, The Fourteenth Amendment And The Supreme Court, John Raeburn Green
The Bill Of Rights, The Fourteenth Amendment And The Supreme Court, John Raeburn Green
Michigan Law Review
The first enforcement of any of the First Amendment freedoms against the states, through the Fourteenth Amendment, was in 1927. In the twenty years since, these freedoms have, one by one, been brought within the protection of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, as integral parts of the "liberty" which is safeguarded against state denial-the process having been completed in 1947 by the dictum that the prohibition of the establishment of religion ran against the states. The chronology of the struggle to enforce the Bill of Rights against the states, as well as other circumstances, suggests that the …