Beginning in 1897, the supreme court slowly began to use the protection of "life, liberty, or property" in the fourteenth amendment's clause to incorporate some of the provisions of the bill of rights as binding on the states.

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the  wilmot proviso  was designed to eliminate  slavery  within the  landacquired as a result of the mexican war (1846-48). fearing the addition of a pro-slave territory, pennsylvania congressman david  wilmot proposedhis amendment to the bill.