According to Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, the president does not have the authority to unilaterally raise or suspend the debt ceiling. Biden over the weekend signaled the 14th Amendment option isn't completely off the table for the future.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. Constitutional amendments: Procedure; concurrent and consecutive amendments. 1. 3 The President shall have Power to fill up all. The 14th amendment says that any debt the United States has taken on must be honored. The court may permit a summons to be amended. In the 1833 case of Barron v. 2, was on the ballot in Nevada on November 5, 1968, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment.