Privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States … are chiefly defined in the first eight amendments to the Constitution of the United States… . These eight articles … never were limitations upon the power of the states until made so by the Fourteenth Amendment.
John Bingham
1871
Bingham was a primary architect of the 14th Amendment.
[This is something to keep in mind as later this month, after being more than 140 years overdue, the Second Amendment is finally acknowledged as a barrier to state and local governments infringement on a specific enumerated right. Bigots ignore the spirit and the intent of the law. We have a legal system. Not a justice system.
Although I haven't read all of Alan Gura's briefs so maybe he did use this but if he didn't it would seem to me he overlooked powerful support for his approach to incorporation of the Second Amendment.
I found this while reading The Gun Rights War, page 75.--Joe]