A grandfather clause, also known as grandfather policy, grandfathering, or being grandfathered in, is a provision in which an old rule continues to apply to some existing situations while a new rule will apply to all future cases.

Grandfather clause, statutory or constitutional device enacted by seven Southern states between 1895 and 1910 to deny suffrage to African Americans. It exempted persons who could vote before 1866 or 1867 and their descendants from new requirements for voting.

2015年8月24日 · A grandfather clause is a provision in which businesses, enterprises, or class of persons are exempt from the provisions of a new rule, regulation, or law. Usually, a grandfather clause specifies a date for the division of exempted entities, making it clear that situations that occur from that date forward are subject to the new regulations.

2013年10月22日 · The justices were concerned that the grandfather clause was not only discriminatory but a clear attempt by a state to nullify the federal Constitution.

The term grandfather clause comes from a racially driven set of voting laws in the South after the Civil War. Many Southern states began requiring individuals to satisfy literacy tests, property ownership, and poll taxes in order to vote.

Beginning in 1895, several states enacted laws in which persons who had been voters or descendants of voters before the ratification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment s could be registered without meeting any literacy requirement.

2023年8月21日 · A grandfather clause, also called a “legacy clause,” is an exemption that allows persons or entities to continue with activities or operations that were approved before the implementation of...

A grandfather clause, also known as grandfather policy or grandfathering, is a legal provision that allows individuals or entities to continue operating under an old rule, even after a new rule or regulation has been implemented. Those who benefit from this clause are said to have "grandfather rights" or to have been "grandfathered in."

An annotation about the Fifteenth Amendment, Section 1, 2 Grandfather Clauses of the Constitution of the United States.

2018年6月8日 · Grandfather clauses, which were originally intended to prevent black people from voting, were named for provisions adopted by the constitutions of some states. Such amendments sought to interfere with an individual's right to vote by setting forth difficult requirements.