This has all been changed through judicial interpretation of the Due Process. Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment: "No state shall deprive any person of life,.The 14th Amendment provides, in part, that no state can "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. The 14 th Amendment, ratified in 1868, provides three important constitutional rights: citizenship, due process and equal protection. Doe. Summary of a Fourteenth Amendment Landmark case: Plyler v. The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. 241, 252–62, the constitutional basis for them was deemed to be in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Today, the Deputy Secretary of State Joe Esparza drew the ballot order for the 14 proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution. It's been discussed when talking about removing members of Congress or the president amid the Capitol riots, but what is it? Passage of the 14th Amendment guaranteed the Equal Protection Clause.