[ffrancone]

Is it a "known fact" that follows only from the fact that the constitution was a constitution of the US? Or are there deliberations from the constitutional convention that suggest this to be the case?

[inquest]

I know that when the BOR was passed, Madison, among others, lamented the fact that it did not apply to the states as well, and hoped that followup amendments would be passed that would do so. And looking at the arguments raised by anti-federalists against ratifying the Constitution, and later urging that a bill of rights be added to it, it's clear that these people did not fear their own state governments, but we're extremely unnerved at the prospect of a powerful federal state. They demanded, and received, a bill of rights in order to keep that federal government in check. The last thing they wanted was a fedgov with the power to restrict the policies of individual states.