A grandfather clause is a provision when an old rule continues to apply to some existing situations while the new rule will apply to all future cases. Those exempt from the new rule are said to have grandfather rights or acquired rights. Slaves were the target because the old rule found they weren't citizens and couldn't vote, so it was applied to a new law.
The Grandfather Clause was a clause that was instituted by several southern states in the United States of America during the Reconstruction, making it virtually impossible for African Americans to vote. The seven states that enacted the Grandfather Clause or some variation were Louisiana, North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Oklahoma, and Virginia.
The Fugitive Slave Clause was a provision in the US Constitution that required the return of escaped slaves to their owners. An example sentence could be: The Fugitive Slave Clause increased tensions between northern and southern states over the issue of slavery.
The Fugitive Slave Act was supported by Southern slaveholders and their political allies in the United States government. They saw the law as a way to uphold the Fugitive Slave Clause of the Constitution and protect their property rights in enslaved people.
Slaves were subject of the act. The southern states wanted running away by slaves made illegal since they were property. The act gave law enforcement the means to search and take property back to its owner.
The due process clause of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
In southern states
Disfranchise it
They were trying to prevent black southern men from being able to vote.
The Grandfather Clause was a clause that was instituted by several southern states in the United States of America during the Reconstruction, making it virtually impossible for African Americans to vote. The seven states that enacted the Grandfather Clause or some variation were Louisiana, North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Oklahoma, and Virginia.
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The point of using a grandfather clause was to allow literacy tests to be conducted for voting but not to deny the right to vote for those who's ancestors had the right to vote before the literacy tests were created.
I think you misunderstand the term "grandfather clause ". It was a statute enacted by the southern states in reconstruction that allowed potential white voters to bypass literacy tests, poll taxes, and other things to stop African Americans from voting. It had nothing to do with family lines.
Southern states instituted poll taxes (where someone has to pay to vote), literacy tests (where someone has to read and sometimes explain part of the Constitution or another government document) and grandfather clauses, which mean that you are only eligible to vote if your grandfather was.
citizens
Absolutely not.See Lockhart vs. United States.
Slavery. Initially Jefferson wrote a clause outlawing slavery but it was too unpopular and the Framers were worried it wouldn't be ratified by the southern states.