The 14th Amendment requires people to be born or naturalized in the United States to vote. Election Day: Tuesday, Nov.2 ("Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the. Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and. The 14th Amendment wrote the Declaration of Independence's promise of freedom and equality into the Constitution. Assert its specific constitutional authority to implement the. The Equal Protection Clause is part of the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The 39th United States Congress proposed the Fourteenth Amendment on June 13, 1866. Section Five of the Fourteenth Amendment vests Congress with the authority to adopt "appropriate" legislation to enforce the other parts of the Amendment. It is true that the chief interest of the people in giving permanence and security to citizen- ship in the Fourteenth Amendment was the desire to protect Ne-.