Selective Incorporation has nothing to do with corporations. It's a legal doctrine related to the Supreme Court deciding whether certain parts of the Bill of Rights are held to be applicable to the states as the result of the ratification of the 14th Amendment.
Most of the first 8 amendments and the 13th Amendment are held to be applicable to the states as well as the Federal government.
Selective incorporation
Selective incorporation
Total incorporation is the legal doctrine which holds that the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause incorporates all of the protections in the Bill of Rights against the states. Selective incorporation, on the other hand, is the legal doctrine which holds that the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause incorporates only certain fundamental protections in the Bill of Rights against the states.
selective incorporation
The no incorporation justices argued that the Bill of Rights applied only to the federal government, not the states. The plus incorporation justices used the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to extend the Bill of Rights to the states, incorporating them through a process of selective or total incorporation.
Palko vs Connecticut 1937
Total incorporation (sometimes called "mechanical incorporation" or "complete incorporation") would apply the first eight amendments of the Bill of Rights (the Ninth and Tenth aren't individual rights; the Ninth isn't triable) to the states as a single unit via the Fourteenth Amendment, as some constitutional scholars argue was the original intent. The US Supreme Court has elected to use a process called selective incorporation, which applies individual clauses to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses, as needed.
1st amendment
Palko v. Connecticut
Some Amendments applied to the States by Amendment XIV.
Total incorporation (sometimes called "mechanical incorporation" or "complete incorporation") would apply the first eight amendments of the Bill of Rights (the Ninth and Tenth aren't individual rights; the Ninth isn't triable) to the states as a single unit via the Fourteenth Amendment, as some constitutional scholars argue was the original intent. The US Supreme Court has elected to use a process called selective incorporation, which applies individual clauses to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses, as needed.
The "total incorporation" argument holds that the 14th Amendment makes the individual States subject to the restrictions of the earlier Amendments. ALL of them. So if one of the Amendments in the Bill of Rights forbids Congress from infringing a particular freedom, then the State legislatures can't do so either."Selective incorporation" holds that only those Amendments that embody certain "fundamental rights" are applied to the States.