Question

Read the excerpt from the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.

The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

This Fourteenth Amendment clause means that

Congress cannot do anything in relation to the Fourteenth Amendment.
all states have the authority to make laws to apply the amendment.
all citizens will be subject to the same set of legal procedures.
Congress has the authority to make laws to apply the amendment.

Answer 1

Congress has the authority to make laws to apply the amendment.

This clause gives Congress the power to pass "appropriate legislation" to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment's provisions (e.g., equal protection and due process), such as civil-rights laws and measures to remedy state violations.