Which one of the following reasons was not offered by the unanimous Gideon Court to justify its ruling that the right to counsel is fundamental to a fair trial? Group of answer choices The rejection of the fundamental fairness application in regard to the right to counsel in felony cases was necessary to clarify lower court appreciation of the actual state of the law. The absolute necessity of counsel is an obvious truth evidenced by the facts that the government hires attorneys to prosecute and that defendants with means hire attorneys to defend. The Sixth Amendment requires an attorney be provided to represent every indigent defendant who is facing a loss of liberty for any amount of time and on any charge. The right to counsel is one of the fundamental rights found in the first eight amendments to the Constitution that is safeguarded from state infringement by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment