The original text of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. 4 The proposed amendment as it passed the House contained no such provision, and it was decided in the Senate to include language like that finally adopted.Ratified in 1868, Congress and the courts have applied the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause to many aspects of public life over the past 150 years. 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. Handwritten forms are hard to read. Complete online, then print. Ballots are mailed 29 days before an election. Words used in the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter. Similarly, in a series of 1880s railroad cases beginning with Santa Clara County v.