The 14 th Amendment to the US Constitution provides that, with few discrete exceptions, people born in the United States are citizens of this country. Every act shall embrace but one subject and matters properly connected therewith, which subject shall be expressed in the title; but if any subject shall be.One of the purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment was to provide federal protection of individual rights against the states. The Arizona State Constitution has been updated to include the revised sections from the 55th Legislature, 1st Regular Session. Found in the 5th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution. Proposition 103 would amend the Arizona Constitution to allow any registered voter in the state to vote in a partisan primary election. Women have made progress and the 14th Amendment, which guarantees all citizens "equal protection of the laws," protected them, she believed.