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 principle that everyone born in this country is a United States citizen is one of the sacred building blocks of our democracy.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. Search this collection to find debate on the 14th Amendment (H. Former U.S. President Donald Trump during his civil business fraud trial in New York City on. The court dodged the central question of the lawsuit does Trump's role in the Jan. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966). Amendment 3: Quartering Soldiers in a person's house. 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.