To secure the screws on my glasses I put a drop of boiled linseed oil on the screw head after tightening them. This locks them in place but still allows them to be unscrewed if necessary.
A more modern version of this would be to put a drop of blue Loc-Tite on the threads, but I already had the BLO.
That's not how the other parts of the Bill of Rights were applied against the states. They had to be "incorporated" against the states under the 14th Amendment. Prior to ratification of the 14th, the BoR was seen as a group of restrictions against only the Federal government.