Remember, We Are Not a Democracy..... its not in the founding Documents. period, Exclamation Point.
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The conclusions you’re drawing from that case are all wrong - the holding was basically that the Fifth Amendment protected against self incrimination in federal proceedings, it didn’t protect citizens in state proceedings (e.g., the Bill of Rights is a list of things the Federal Government cannot do, but doesn’t apply to the various State Governments).
Importantly, Twining was overruled by Mallory v. Hogan, 378 US 1 (1964), so I wouldn’t cite it to support anything.
That Twining ruling always bothered me. It strikes me as an example of Judges selectively picking from the Constitution to justify their decision. Article IV specifically states that the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land and all judges in all states must abide by it.
The Bill of Rights, though, was adopted as a firewall against only the Federal government - the first amendment for example provides only that “Congress shall make no laws respecting the establishment of religion . . . “ and does not address State legislatures.
Later, through the 14th Amendment, SCOTUS eventually held that the 14 amendment requires the states are bound by almost all of the bill of rights.