A North Carolina ballot measure proposes an amendment to the state constitution requiring all voters to be U.S. citizens. The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United. All persons lawfully in this country shall abide 'in any state' on an equality of legal privileges with all citizens under nondiscriminatory laws. The legislative power of the State shall be vested in the General Assembly, which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives. Sec. 2. The 14th Amendment wrote the Declaration of Independence's promise of freedom and equality into the Constitution. The 14th Amendment wrote the Declaration of Independence's promise of freedom and equality into the Constitution. The Supreme Court Strikes Down Affirmative Action at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, Discrimination, Fourteenth Amendment, Section 1, 2023-06-30. China trade exploded in the two decades after China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. 52.229-14 Taxes—Foreign Contracts in Afghanistan (North Atlantic Treaty Organization Status of Forces Agreement).