GRANDFATHER CLAUSE


Meaning of GRANDFATHER CLAUSE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: 1900

: a clause creating an exemption based on circumstances previously existing ; especially : a provision in several southern state constitutions designed to enfranchise poor whites and disenfranchise blacks by waiving high voting requirements for descendants of men voting before 1867

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.