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by voxic11 3880 days ago
Actually the justification for incorporating the bill of rights (well some of it) comes from the 14th amendment, not the supremacy clause.
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The supremacy clause is, however, the basis for why state statute can't brush aside the protections in the federal constitution, including those incorporated against the states by the Fourteenth Amendemnt.