Beginning in 1897, the Supreme Court slowly began to use the protection of "life, liberty, or property" in what clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to incorporate some of the provisions of the Bill of Rights as binding on the states?

A. Due process
B. Equal protection
C. Full faith and credit
D. Establishment
E. Elastic

Answer: A

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