• A grandfather clause, also known as grandfather policy, grandfathering, or being grandfathered in, is a provision in which an old rule continues to apply...
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  • A grandfather clause (or grandfather policy or grandfathering) is a provision in which an old rule continues to apply to some existing situations while...
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  • found certain grandfather clause exemptions to literacy tests for voting rights to be unconstitutional. Though these grandfather clauses were superficially...
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    January 1, 1867, another type of use of a grandfather clause. Virginia also used a type of grandfather clause. In Guinn v. United States (1915), the Supreme...
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    Effects of Drunk Driving. Drivingdrunk.org. Retrieved on 2011-06-22. "Grandfathered Teen-agers". The Washington Post. 1982-07-03. Retrieved 2018-09-28....
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    and/or one sport for women after the original grandfather clause went into effect, so they were not grandfathered and thus were not allowed to offer athletic...
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  • African-American and poor white voters through poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses and other restrictions, applied in a discriminatory manner. During...
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    barriers to voting, from which white male voters were exempted by grandfather clauses. A system of white primaries and violent intimidation by Democrats...
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    was elected president, to a second term. The amendment contained a grandfather clause that explicitly exempted the incumbent president, then Harry S. Truman...
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  • comprehension tests, and residency and record-keeping requirements. Grandfather clauses temporarily permitted some illiterate white people to vote but gave...
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    eligibility to do so having stemmed from California's constitutional grandfather clause. On October 7, 2013, he became the longest-serving governor in the...
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    sometimes allowed to vote through a "grandfather clause," which waived literacy requirements if one's grandfather had been a qualified voter before 1866...
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    who were already serving prior to this date were protected under a grandfather clause. The U.S. Marines posted changes to this policy October 29, 2021,...
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  • tests (often waived if the prospective voter's grandfather had been a registered voter, the "grandfather clause"), that effectively prevented blacks from voting...
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    voting rights. The laws often included a grandfather clause, which allowed any adult male whose father or grandfather had voted in a specific year prior to...
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    permitted to vote without taking these literacy tests because of grandfather clauses written into legislation. Other countries, notably Australia, as...
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  • recommends using the term "ethyl methyl ketone" instead. Abandonware Grandfather clause List of deprecated terms for diseases Obsolescence Orphaned technology...
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    Manitoba also gained seats under the grandfather clause, New Brunswick gained seats under the senatorial clause, and Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and...
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    2019 three weeks prior to the federal Tobacco 21 law. It included a grandfather clause that exempted adults born before December 31, 2000. After the passage...
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    Episode: "Communication Breakdown" The Single Guy Booth Guy Episode: "Grandfather Clause" 1998–1999 Jesse Darren Warner Main role, season 1 (22 episodes) 1999...
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    governor Jerry Brown, to whom the term limits did not apply due to a grandfather clause, defeated Meg Whitman in the general election and was sworn into office...
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    Island, Washington, and West Virginia) took no action. Because of the grandfather clause in Section 1, the amendment did not apply to Harry S. Truman, the...
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  • end of February 2004 were to be executed by firing squad under a grandfather clause. The execution of 49-year-old Ronnie Lee Gardner on June 18, 2010...
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    subsection 51(1) of the Constitution Act, 1867, commonly known as the "Grandfather Clause". The bill passed the House of Commons on June 15, the Senate on June...
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    because they could only be rebuilt or replaced under an environmental grandfather clause, "not installed from scratch." According to The New York Times, "Pizza...
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    taxes, literacy tests, and a grandfather clause that exempted citizens from other voting requirements if their grandfathers had been registered voters....
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    pledges to serve only one term, most recently Rutherford B. Hayes. A grandfather clause exemption was made for the president serving when the amendment was...
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    utilizes a waste cesspool. Other counties or villages may recognize the "grandfather clause" and allow the property sale or transfer with the cesspool. The typical...
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