Why is the concept of "selective incorporation" important to the 14th Amendment?(1 point)

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It protects states' rights by saying that each of the rights and liberties in the Constitutional Amendments has to be incorporated into the states on a case-by-case basis.

It says that all the rights and liberties in the Bill of Rights applied to the states.

which one is it?

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The correct response is:

It protects states' rights by saying that each of the rights and liberties in the Constitutional Amendments has to be incorporated into the states on a case-by-case basis.

Selective incorporation is the legal doctrine used by the courts to apply most of the Bill of Rights to the states through the 14th Amendment's Due Process Clause, but it does so on a case-by-case basis rather than applying all rights uniformly.