The Enlightenment<span> (also known as the </span>Age of Enlightenment<span> or the </span>Age of Reason). <span>was an intellectual and philosophical movement which overthrew the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century.</span>
They were expected to focus only on their homes and families.
To ensure that no single branch became too powerful
Broadly speaking, Mercantilism was very good for European countries for a while but terrible for their colonies.
Mercantilism made people in the Old World VERY rich and this made the Colonists angry.
As a result, the colonists started to push back and eventually rebelled.
Keeping it brief, the Court -- little by little -- gradually asserted that certain rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights are, in some way, "in" the 14th too; that the 14th protects those rights from being violated by the states. But the Court never said that all of the rights in the Bill of Rights are "in" the 14th. Over the course of many decades the Court kept on expanding the list of which rights in the BoR are "in" the 14th, but all along the way the Court kept on saying too, that not all of the rights are "in." By the 1960's *most* of the rights in the BoR were "absorbed" into the 14th.
