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 14th Amendment provides, in part, that no state can "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.The 14th Amendment provides, in part, that no state can "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. The Constitution of Arizona will seem both familiar and alien to those who have only read the Constitution of the United States. At Arizona State University. One of the purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment was to provide federal protection of individual rights against the states. This Constitutional amendment expands choices in primaries, eliminates partybased restrictions on election participation, and applies the same.