Selective incorporation makes the protections in the Bill of Rights applicable to the states through which of the following amendments?

Which of the following BEST paraphrases this statement?

a. people must show allegiance to their king and country throughout their lives b. people need to help others understand their basic rights as citizens c. people owe their allegiance first to God, then to the monarch d. people are born with certain rights that no one can take from them

In their book The Rational Public, Page and Shapiro studied public opinion by reviewing decades of poll data. Which of the following is NOT one of the findings of their study?

a. Over the long haul, pubic opinion on many issues remains fairly stable. b. When public opinion does change, it moves in logical directions. c. Public opinion generally reflects a lackluster or lazy attitude among many voters. d. Decades of poll data show a pattern of sensibility and rationality on the part of public opinion. e. Public opinion tends to form meaningful patterns consistent with a set of underlying beliefs and values.