Grandfather clause

Some might argue that the right to free speech or the right to purchase whatever you choose with your own money is what makes you a true American citizen. In Wilbert L. Jenkins’s book, Climbing Up to Glory: A Short History of African Americans During the Civil War and Reconstruction, the right to vote is considered a major accomplishment when obtaining the rights of the common American citizen. These rights are so important in fact that African Americans never stopped fighting to obtain them.…

According to Madison, factions are special interests groups that overlook the interests of others to fulfill their own selfish interests. Madison believes that factions are one of the biggest things that weakens our government. Naturally as human beings we all have different ideas based on how we were raised or what we cultured/conditioned to believe. According to Madison, factions are not a good thing, but unfortunately they are inevitable. He says there are two things that can be done, one…

American History: Our Hope for the Future When you think about American History it’s a bundle of messes and lots of wars and fights. But what I’m going to talk to you about the right to vote and how it changed throughout the history and how it affected the U.S. When voting first was a thing only white, property owning, protestant men and that was in 1776. When this became a thing the Declaration of Independence just got signed. The women lose the right to vote in all states in 1807 for the next…

1865, the government then created Jim crow laws, to prevent them from being successful in any way possible. Jim crow laws played a major role in the violation of both civil rights and liberties. There was also the grandfather clause permitting people the right to vote only if their grandfather had that right. In fact, women too faced voting restrictions up until…

obtaining any sort of political power, for instance, poll taxes and literacy requirements. One might think that these laws are fair because they affect both blacks and whites however they simply are not due to the grandfather clause that was put into place saying that any man, whose grandfather had voted, could vote. Being that blacks had only come out of slavery and been allowed to vote just a few…

approximately 80% of Africans Americans were illiterate and approximately only 10% of whites were illiterate the southern states created a statute to help the 10% of the white illiterate population who opposed to it. The statute was the “Grandfather Clause”. The clause allowed white individuals if they could demonstrate they descended from someone who could vote in 1867. We can see a clear example of how some states, despite the new amendments, found “loopholes” to circumvent the right to vote…

First, let us define what Jim Crow segregation is a set of state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. These laws were implemented after the civil war and followed through most of the civil rights movement. These laws ensured that people of colour were segregated from the white man in all public space. This public space included areas such as bathrooms, entrances to movies, water fountains, transportation, and many other facilities. Jim Crow segregation can…

abolished there was a new movement to figure out what to do with all of the freed slaves. Reconstruction brought a group of laws that started to bring segregation amongst African-Americans and southern-whites. These laws essentially created grandfather clauses amongst the states in which would limit the boundaries of the 15th and 16th amendments (cite, 2016). These amendments granted the freedoms to African Americans. The laws limited the jobs African Americans could work, created white only…

Through many centuries, equality has been a key feature in the United States. The definition of equality holds many ambiguities. There are various forms of equality and inequality worth discussing. In the United States, with a free-market trade, economic inequality has often been favored by America citizens rather than political inequality. Progressively, the inequality engrained in society over the last three decades helps explain why Americans prefer economic rather than political inequality.…

It is clear that the framers of the Alabama 1901 Constitution had one goal, to silence their opponents. They used poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses and other forms of disenfranchisement. Not only are they responsible for disenfranchisement but also they are responsible for centralization of political power. Alabama after the ratification the 1901 constitution lacks home rule, amends a surplus of amendments that only affect specific counties, and weakens local democracy. To begin…