Dear Friends,
The court is incorrect, the first amendment does not apply to the states, if it did then all the state constitution would have no means, and major sections of the US Constitution would also have no meaning.
"However, beginning in the 1890's, a series of United States Supreme Court decisions interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment to "incorporate" most portions of the Bill of Rights, making these portions, for the first time, enforceable against the state governments."
These actions to expand the Federal govermnent power is not allow by the ninth and tenth amendments to the Constitution.
The court does not have the power to take away from the people and the states only the states have this power, and many people will say that the method that the 14th was approved under itself was not constitutional.
You have not have a law that is mostly enforce, and if this is true then the seventh would also appy to the states, and it surely does not.
We live in a time where our most important laws are not even read by the majority of the people, and ones that do read them, look for meaning that do not exist.
God Bless You