re: #148 freetoken

A good example of this is that the bill of rights as originally understood was mainly limitations on the power of Federal government (e.g., Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech…). So as of the founding, the states could censor as they pleased within their borders, if allowed by the state constitution. It wasn’t until passage of the 14th amendment that the guarantees in the bill of rights were uniformly applied to the states, and that only happened because of the upheavals of the civil war era.