Among them was the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits the states from depriving "any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution provides that, with few discrete exceptions, people born in the United States are citizens of this country.We must look to see if the interest is within the Fourteenth Amendment's protection of liberty and property. One of the purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment was to provide federal protection of individual rights against the states. Wording in the 14th Amendment guaranteed for the first time "due process of law" and "the equal protection of the laws" for citizens. Wording in the 14th Amendment guaranteed for the first time "due process of law" and "the equal protection of the laws" for citizens. CREW noted that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment has "not been tested often in the last 150 years, due to lack of insurrections. The Citizenship Clause is the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which was adopted on July 9, 1868, which states:.