Section 3 Disqualification from Holding Office. 4 The proposed amendment as it passed the House contained no such provision, and it was decided in the Senate to include language like that finally adopted.The Due Process Clause provides that no states shall deprive any "person" of "life, liberty or property" without due process of law. The 14th amendment is designed to constitutionalize the rights of the civil rights act of 1866. The citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment was specifically intended to repeal the Dred Scott decision. The 14th Amendment wrote the Declaration of Independence's promise of freedom and equality into the Constitution. The Fifth Amendment says to the federal government that no one shall be "deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law. In other words, the First. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. Amendment IX (1791).