grandfather clauseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

grandfather clause (複数形 grandfather clauses)

1. A clause or section, especially in a law, granting exceptions for people or organisations who were affected by previous conditions.

   Many building codes include a grandfather clause exempting older buildings until some amount of remodeling occurs.

   • 1910 October 27, “Grandfather's Clause”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The “grandfather clause” provides that no man whose grandfather could not vote, can exercise the right of franchise. It will thus disenfranchise many negroes, whose grandfathers were slaves.

   • 1911, Frederic Jesup Stimson, chapter XVI, in Popular Law-making‎^[2]:

     Under the Fifteenth Amendment there is little political legislation, except the effort in Southern States by educational or property qualifications, and most questionably by the so-called "grandfather clause," to exclude most negroes from the right of suffrage.

   • 1981 December 17, “Santa Claus? No, Grandfather Clause”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN:

     The compromise that was finally struck will eliminate the minimum benefit for future retirees. But a “grandfather” clause allows the three million pensioners already receiving it to keep on getting it.

   • 1992 January 18, “Undeserving 'Grandfathers'”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN:

     A grandfather clause will allow senior members retiring this year to transfer these funds to their personal bank accounts.

   • 2013 October 22, Alan Greenblatt, “The Racial History Of The 'Grandfather Clause'”, in NPR.org‎^[5]:

     In 1915, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Guinn v. United States that grandfather clauses were unconstitutional. The court in those days upheld any number of segregationist laws — and even in Guinn specified that literacy tests untethered from grandfather clauses were OK.

派生語

• grandfather (verb)
• grandfather in (verb)

Further reading

• grandfather clause on Wikipedia.