| 单词 | grandfather clause |
| 释义 | grandfather clause 1. U.S. Hist. a clause in the constitutions of some Southern states after 1890 intended to permit whites to vote while disfranchising blacks: it exempted from new literacy and property qualifications for voting those men entitled to vote before 1867 and their lineal descendants. 2. any legal provision that exempts a business, class of persons, etc., from a new government regulation that would affect prior rights and privileges. [1895-1900, Amer.] |
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