The 14th Amendment was never ratified legally. Oh, it was voted on, but soundly defeated twice. Still, it was ratified through a series of illegal and unlawful moves by the northern states. Listen to and watch this 12 minute video by Dan Smoot from the early 1960s to understand what happened.
https://archive.org/details/201334_The_Dan_Smoot_Report_The_Fourteenth_Amendment_386