§1 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 3 and then in the first sentence. In the wake of the war, the Congress submitted, and the States ratified, the Thirteenth.The Due Process Clause provides that no states shall deprive any "person" of "life, liberty or property" without due process of law. The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a wide variety of primary source materials associated with the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution. Special election to fill vacancy in Congress. Voters in Arizona decided on two constitutional amendments related to electoral systems — Proposition 133 and Proposition 140. The 14 th Amendment to the US Constitution provides that, with few discrete exceptions, people born in the United States are citizens of this country. They should be permitted to participate in the decisions that are made during those elections. Vote "yes" on Proposition 103. The Fourteenth Amendment performs the essential function of ensuring that laws in the United States protect and preserve everyone's rights equally.