Let’s use freedom of speech as an example.
If a person says something that is disparaging or insinuates that some other person cannot stop them from saying such things because they have Freedom of speech!
This is telling the person who is being disparaged that he cannot do anything about it.
Which you can see this is an attempt deny this person of their constitutional right to freedom of speech as while as deny them the right to defend themselves against such disparaging comments.

It also sets standards that any right given to one is given to all and the laws cannot be made to deny or single out any particular citizen or group of citizens from such rights.

However our judicial system has case files piled sky high that deal with just these type of cases and must weight where ones rights starts and another ones end.
To justify these type of decisions the courts have interpreted this amendment to mean that only the government cannot pass laws that infringe on the rights of it’s citizens or groups of citizens. However the judicial system in making such determination also ignored Title 8 of the Us Code and made it read person or persons. Thus giving the rights of our country to anyone from around the world. Be they friend or foe!
This in turn ignores the other branch’s of the government and allows them to legislate from the bench. Which is not what our founding fathers had intended this amendment to do. Which is suppose to protect the rights of all the citizens of our country equally!