The 14th Amendment provides, in part, that no state can "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. 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 amendment's first section includes the Citizenship Clause, Privileges or Immunities Clause, Due Process Clause, and Equal Protection Clause. Hence, Texas courts have considered Section 3 to be the Texas expression of these words in the. — U.S. Constitution, Amendment XIV. (1868). The Citizenship Clause granted citizenship to All persons born or naturalized in the United States. Amendment of the Constitution, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and. 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. Wording in the 14th Amendment guaranteed for the first time "due process of law" and "the equal protection of the laws" for citizens. It didn't even get a cameo in the Nicolas Cage adventure romp National Treasure — I checked.