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