Amendments was ''the freedom of the slave race. Case,1 however, Chief Justice Taney, writing for the Court, ruled that this rule did not apply to freed slaves.7.3Out of Wedlock Births. Amdt14. Slavery prohibited; freedom of religious worship; taxation of certain property. Slavery and involuntary servitude are morally unacceptable forms of punishment and should not exist in any form, even in our prison system. The amendment removed language from the Nevada Constitution that allows the use of slavery or involuntary servitude as criminal punishments. The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. We must look to see if the interest is within the Fourteenth Amendment's protection of liberty and property. And it nullified an earlier Supreme Court decision that held descendants of slaves could not be citizens.