A person may not be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law or denied equal protection of the laws. Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits former government officials from holding public office again if they have engaged in insurrection or rebellion.The Fourteenth Amendment "due process clause" applies directly to states. - Fourth Amendment: The Fourth Amendment guarantees of protection from unreasonable search and seizure (see, e.g. One of the purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment was to provide federal protection of individual rights against the states. Fifth Amendment and another in the Fourteenth is too frivolous to require elaborate rejection."1. The clause conferred U.S. and state citizenship at birth to all individuals born in the United States. Ment, and in the Fourteenth Amendment itself. It would take until 1959 before California's legislators ratified the 14th Amendment. Balances in the government of California to stop it;.