Thus, the fact is no state can go against the Bill of Rights. it deals with individual liberty, and which by its nature limits gov't.
Which leads to the same question that paulsen couldn't answer earlier..
Joe, why do you want States to have the power to infringe upon our individual liberties? -- Why should CA have the power to prohibit me from owning an 'assault weapon'? -- Can you answer joe?
If the citizens of the individual states wanted to limit their state government, all they had to do was pass a state constitutional amendment.
They would certainly not come up with some convoluted scheme that sets up a federal government, include an Article VI which only tpaine and tacticalogic think apply the document to the states also, ratify a BOR two years later that SPECIFICALLY says "Congress shall make no law ..." and say it also applies to the states.
Riddle me this. If the Constitution also applied to the states, then Article I, Section 9 (No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed) also applied to the states, correct?
Then why the need for Article I, Section 10, which says, " No state shall ... pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, ..."?