الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية
تعريف grandfather clauses في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.
- plural form of grandfather clause
- grandfather clause
- A clause or section, especially in a law, granting exceptions for people or organisations who were affected by previous conditions
Many building codes include a grandfather clause exempting older buildings until some amount of remodeling occurs.
- grandfather clause
- A clause in the constitutions of several southern states before the year 1915, intended to disfranchise African Americans by exempting from stringent voting requirements all lineal descendants of persons who were registered voters before 1867
- grandfather clause
- A provision in a statute that exempts those already involved in a regulated activity or business from the new regulations established by the statute
- grandfather clause
- Constitutional provision enacted by seven Southern U.S. states (1895-1910) to deny suffrage to African American men. It exempted descendants of men who voted before 1867 from meeting new literacy and property requirements. Since African American men were not granted voting rights until passage of the 15th Amendment in 1870, this clause effectively prevented them, and many impoverished and illiterate whites, from voting. The U.S. Supreme Court declared such clauses unconstitutional in 1915
- grandfather clause
- an exemption based on circumstances existing prior to the adoption of some policy; used to enfranchise illiterate whites in US south after the Civil War
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grandfather clauses
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grand·fa·ther clausesالتركية النطق
grändfädhır klôzızالنطق
/ˈgrandˌfäᴛʜər ˈklôzəz/ /ˈɡrændˌfɑːðɜr ˈklɔːzəz/
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