What was the important precedent set by the Gitlow v. New York case?

In Gitlow v. New York (1925), the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment’s protection of free speech applied to state governments through the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause. This began the process known as incorporation, so the important precedent was that First Amendment freedoms were incorporated into the Fourteenth Amendment.

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