Case,1 however, Chief Justice Taney, writing for the Court, ruled that this rule did not apply to freed slaves. Amendments was ''the freedom of the slave race.S4.1Overview of Public Debt Clause. Amdt14. 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. "There shall be no slavery in this state; and no involuntary servitude, except for the punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.". "There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the state otherwise than as punishment for a crime of which the party has been convicted. He is for the time being the slave of the state. There, Pennsylvania passed an anti-kidnapping law, providing protections for those accused of being fugitive slaves. Therefore, he could not bring a suit in federal court. These amendments drew a constitutional line in the sand.