American Government Media Tutorial

Demonstrate your knowledge of the incorporation of the Bill of Rights into the Constitution by completing the quiz below. You must answer all questions correctly in order to proceed.

What Supreme Court case stipulated that the BOR only protected citizens against the actions of the national government?

Marbury v. Madison (1803) Bush v. Gore (2000) Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Barron v. Baltimore (1833)

What was the mechanism by which this began to change?

The 14th Amendment The 19th Amendment President Wilson’s Executive Order

Below is the text of section one of the 14th Amendment. Select the text from this amendment that led to the selective incorporation of the Bill of Rights.

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.