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, ratified in 1868, provides three important constitutional rights: citizenship, due process and equal protection."The disqualification clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prevents public officials who engage in treason from holding a future public office. 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 Fourteenth Amendment contains an enforcement clause, which grants the federal government the power to enforce the clause. The amendment's first section includes the Citizenship Clause, Privileges or Immunities Clause, Due Process Clause, and Equal Protection Clause. Historians have debated whether the Fourteenth Amendment was intended to end such segregation, but in Plessy v. Historians have debated whether the Fourteenth Amendment was intended to end such segregation, but in Plessy v. Citizens may not be tried on the same set of facts twice and are protected from self-incrimination (the right to remain silent). Hence, Texas courts have considered Section 3 to be the Texas expression of these words in the.