4 The proposed amendment as it passed the House contained no such provision, and it was decided in the Senate to include language like that finally adopted. Among them was the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits the states from depriving "any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.The Due Process Clause provides that no states shall deprive any "person" of "life, liberty or property" without due process of law. So I took my time looking over the original 14th Amendment, wondering how these centuryold words could shape the coming presidential election. Ballot Language: "Proposing amendments to the State Constitution to require members of a district school board to be elected in a partisan election rather. —All political power is inherent in the people. The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution provides that, with few discrete exceptions, people born in the United States are citizens of this country. What the Fourteenth Amendment protects with the Court's own ardent views about the liberty that Americans should enjoy. Proposing amendments to the State Constitution to require members of a district school board to be elected in a partisan.