The Foremost and First Amendment

The earlier ratification of the First Amendment relative to the Fourteenth Amendment establishes its primacy in the United States Constitution.  The first ten Amendments (the Bill of Rights) became part of the American social contract on December 15, 1791; the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified after the Civil War (on July 9, 1868).  Only an irrational, only an ill-intentioned person or court could be confused and confounded by this native logic: while the equal protection of the laws is essential as enumerated by the Fourteenth Amendment, freedom of religion and speech were first and are foremost..