Justice Black argued that the Fourteenth Amendment "absorbed" the specific guarantees of the Bill of Rights and no more because:

Justice Black argued that the Fourteenth Amendment “absorbed” the specific guarantees of the Bill of Rights and no more because:

(A) The Bill of Rights contains the most fundamental guarantees of liberty. (B) He was told that was the  purpose of the Amendment by one of its framers. (C) He was concerned about having cases decided by the “gut feelings” of judges. (D) He wanted to annoy Justice Frankfurter, with whom he had a long-lasting feud