No Person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice. We must look to see if the interest is within the Fourteenth Amendment's protection of liberty and property.The Equal Protection Clause requires each state to provide equal protection under the law to all people, including non-citizens, within its jurisdiction. The 14th amendment ratified in 1868 promotes freedom and equality. PRIVILEGES OR IMMUNITIES CLAUSE 140 (2015); Michael W. McConnell, Originalism and. This provision was enacted under the Constitution in the wake of the Civil War to keep people out of office who had previously held federal office. The lawsuit, citing the 14th Amendment, is likely the initial step in a legal challenge that seems destined for the U.S. Supreme Court. It is the thesis of this monumentally argued book that the United States Supreme Court - largely through abuses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Despite the clarity of the 14th Amendment and its history, Wong's victory was not a given. 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:.