The 14 th Amendment to the US Constitution provides that, with few discrete exceptions, people born in the United States are citizens of this country. The Legislative Branch.One of the purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment was to provide federal protection of individual rights against the states. The Citizenship Clause granted citizenship to All persons born or naturalized in the United States. The Equal Protection Clause requires each state to provide equal protection under the law to all people, including non-citizens, within its jurisdiction. The Equal Protection Clause requires each state to provide equal protection under the law to all people, including non-citizens, within its jurisdiction. Search this collection to find debate on the 14th Amendment (H. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966). The proposed legislation directly contradicts the 14th Amendment guarantee that all people born in the US and under its jurisdiction are citizens of the US.