Section Five of the Fourteenth Amendment vests Congress with the authority to adopt "appropriate" legislation to enforce the other parts of the Amendment. Strickland, Note, The Public Debt Clause Debate: Who Controls this Lost Section of the.With negotiations over the debt ceiling stalling, some lawmakers are pushing President Biden to invoke the 14th Amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. See generally Michael Abramowicz, Beyond Balanced Budgets, Fourteenth Amendment. The debt limit is the total amount of money that the United States government is authorized to borrow to meet its existing legal obligations. The Fourteenth Amendment addresses many aspects of citizenship and the rights of citizens. Under this chapter, debtors propose a repayment plan to make installments to creditors over three to five years. Shall not be questioned. " Under this amendment, it is clear the imposition of a debt ceiling is unconstitutional.