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 original text of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. Even if someone is found to be ineligible to serve, the amendment says Congress can overturn that decision with a twothirds majority. In the wake of those Federal actions, many states amended or rewrote their state constitutions to conform with the spirit of the 14th Amendment. Some legal scholars have suggested Section 3 could be applied to the former president using the same arguments as in the Reconstruction Era. Concerned about increasing state regulation, corporations seek to overturn the Supreme Court's decision in the Slaughterhouse Cases . The 14th Amendment is the only reason that the original Constitution isn't a dustbound relic of antebellum America, slavery and all. Would the disqualification clause of the amendment not cover the top posts in the executive branch? Be "commercial" in the sense that sale is.