Browse the Constitution Annotated. Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection and Other Rights.Ratified in 1868, Congress and the courts have applied the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause to many aspects of public life over the past 150 years. "Since the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, Americans have been guaranteed equal protection under the law. — The language of the Fourteenth Amendment requires the provision of due process when an interest in one's "life, liberty or property" is threatened. If filed without a CD4, this is considered an amendment and amendment fees apply. Intheblanks form authorizing an individual filing agent to efile documents on behalf of a single attorney. The Citizenship Clause granted citizenship to All persons born or naturalized in the United States. But Heller and McDon ald do not support a second step that applies meansend scrutiny in the Second Amendment context. The judge said that portion of the act violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.