Amendments was ''the freedom of the slave race. Slavery is prohibited.In response to Dred Scott, Congress passed and the states ratified the 14th Amendment. The conspicuous exception to this was the holding in the Dred Scott case that former slaves, as non-citizens, could not claim the protections of the clause. The amendment originated after the Civil War when Congress tried passing legislation to secure civil rights for the recently freed slaves. Scott, a slave, argued that he was free because his owner had taken him to territory where slavery was banned. California's constitution allows forced labor as a form of criminal punishment. Sandford (1857), which had held that Americans descended from African slaves could not be U.S. citizens. The California Constitution prohibits slavery and prohibits involuntary servitude, except as punishment to a crime. Amdt14.S1.8.7.3Out of Wedlock Births. Amdt14.S1.8.