The Fourteenth Amendment made all native-born men and women citizens and guaranteed them equal protection under the law. The 14th Amendment grants equal protection of the law to the American people.Read this summary of the 14th Amendment. Among them was the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits the states from depriving "any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. In the wake of the war, the Congress submitted, and the States ratified, the Thirteenth. The 14th amendment guarantees equal protection and due process to all people in the United States, regardless of citizenship. The Fourteenth Amendment was intended to change all that, with some of the strongest civilrights language in the Constitution. State constitutions, on the other hand, are much easier to modify, and state constitutional amendments are adopted on a regular basis. Third, Section Three vested the authority to grant absolution in Congress rather than in the President. 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.