The Due Process Clause provides that no states shall deprive any "person" of "life, liberty or property" without due process of law. The Fourteenth Amendment does not define what it means to be a natural born citizen.The Citizenship Clause broadly defines citizenship, superseding the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott v. We must look to see if the interest is within the Fourteenth Amendment's protection of liberty and property. Vivian Buchanan Vote Harris out of office. The 14th Amendment was necessary to make clear that Black people, as well as anyone born in the country or naturalized, were American citizens. The 1789 Joint Resolution of Congress proposing the amendments is on display in the Rotunda in the National Archives Museum. The Equal Protection Clause is part of the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. So far, very little in the real world.