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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.

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

(The clause—Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment—gives Congress power to enact “appropriate” legislation to enforce the Amendment’s guarantees, such as equal protection and due process.)