Incorporation (U.S. constitutional law)/Definition

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Incorporation (U.S. constitutional law) [r]: The legal doctrine that the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution implicitly "incorporates" many of the provisions of the Bill of Rights and applies them to state governments.