Edited sentence: ) For example, Bingham said: "I repel the suggestion made here in the heat of debate, that the committee or any of its members who favor this proposition [Fourteenth Amendment] seek in any form to mar the Constitution of the country, or take away from any State any right that belongs to it, or from any citizen of any State any right that belongs to him under the Constitution.Anytime you attempt to incorporate the First Amendment you are going strike a blow to a retained State right (right to Establish religion, regulate speech and the press.Both Bingham and Congress had no desire to interfere with any reserved State right.Just so happens citizens have a enumerated right to elect to form a State religion if they so desired or, support religious exercises or, prevent vulgarity from the air waves or print.Obviously then, the theory of incorporation as currently framed is unsupported by the Congress who debated and ratified the amendment.The major problem against incorporation comes from the Fourteenth's own author, John A