and the idea being that the bill of rights was only supposed to limit the federal government (i.e. "concession to the anti-federalists") and not the states them

and the idea being that the bill of rights was only supposed to limit the federal government (i.e. "concession to the anti-federalists") and not the states themselves. It's only incorporation under the 14th amendment that made them applicable to the states and it wasn't particularly clear from the 14th itself that this applied to all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_Rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_R...