Section 4 Public Debt. The Due Process Clause provides that no states shall deprive any "person" of "life, liberty or property" without due process of law.Due process under the Ohio and United States Constitutions demands that the right to notice and an opportunity to be heard must be granted at a meaningful time. 241, 252–62, the constitutional basis for them was deemed to be in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. This publication contains all up-to-date approved amendments. The public debt clause is found in the fourth section of the Fourteenth Amendment. A majority yes vote is necessary for the amendment to pass. A majority yes vote is necessary for the amendment to pass. "Fourteenth Amendment Ratification Project" and tried to figure out how to get the Ohio General Assembly to act.