The original text of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. Browse the Constitution Annotated.Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection and Other Rights. The Fourteenth Amendment addresses many aspects of citizenship and the rights of citizens. Among them was the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits the states from depriving "any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. Search this collection to find debate on the 14th Amendment (H. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania because of the sex of the individual. 00c128v. Since 1968, the year Pennsylvania's current constitution went into effect, voters rejected only six of 49 proposed amendments that reached them. Since 1968, the year Pennsylvania's current constitution went into effect, voters rejected only six of 49 proposed amendments that reached them. The 13th Amendment formally abolished slavery.