Near v. Minnesota

And I remember in the class, um, t- um, that I learned that the history of incorporation, I now know it's more complicated than this, but the history of incorporation begins in Gitlow versus New York, 1925, i- in a case in which the Supreme Court, um- was said to have incorporated the free speech clause against the states, and then in subsequent cases, other clauses were added.

First free press in Near v. Minnesota, then freedom of, free exercise of religion in Cantwell, Everson, and many other cases, uh, many other cases involving, uh, most of, but not all the other amendments.

So I was very curious.

I was, I was hoping to find in Gitlow a kind of foundational explanation argument for, for what, uh, um, became such a, such an enormous part of American, uh, not only American constitutional law, but, but American politics.