The Fourteenth Amendment addresses many aspects of citizenship and the rights of citizens. An act relating to human services; establishing the Minnesota African American Family Preservation and Child Welfare Disproportionality Act.The amendment's first section includes the Citizenship Clause, Privileges or Immunities Clause, Due Process Clause, and Equal Protection Clause. A bill for an act relating to human services; establishing the Minnesota African American Family Preservation and Child Welfare Disproportionality Act. Southern governments began to write black codes to restrict the freedom of formerly enslaved people and guarantee the continuation of a cheap labor force. The Thirteenth Amendment has ensured far more than an end to AfricanAmerican slavery. The 14th Amendment was necessary to make clear that Black people, as well as anyone born in the country or naturalized, were American citizens. This continued until 1868, when an amendment to the state's constitution approved suffrage for all nonwhite men. Carter, 525 U.S. 83 (1998). Home. The clause conferred U.S. and state citizenship at birth to all individuals born in the United States.