Selective Incorporation
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William J. Brennan Jr.
Life StoryThe first-generation American who served as an Army Colonel in World War II, became a reform-minded New Jersey judge, and was a consensus builder on the Supreme Court
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Selective Incorporation
ArticleThe Supreme Court’s case-by-case application of the Bill of Rights to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment
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Incorporating Rights
EraDuring the 1950s and 1960s, Supreme Court decisions addressed issues involving individual rights in the civil rights movement, the apportionment of voting, police procedures, and the scope of state power in areas such as birth control and school prayer.
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Escobedo v. Illinois
Significant CaseThe Supreme Court decision that affirmed a person has a Sixth Amendment right to consult a lawyer as soon as the police focus on them as a suspect
