As society changed, the Bill of Rights had to be expanded. An extremely important example is seen in the Fourteenth Amendment, which allowed the Bill of Rights to be applied to individual states.

The Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause became the basis for applying many protections in the Bill of Rights to state governments, not just the federal government. This process is called incorporation and happened gradually through Supreme Court decisions. So the statement is true.

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