Sentences with 'clause'
Example sentences and phrases with the word clause and other words derived from it.
• « The Treaty of Versailles also required Germany to accept the "war guilt clause", in which it assumed full responsibility for starting the war in the first place. »
• « Politicians had been trying to avoid the issue of slavery ever since the Constitutional Convention of 1787 reached an uneasy compromise in the form of the "three-fifths clause". This provision stated that a state's entire free population and 60 percent of its enslaved population would be counted in establishing that state's membership in the House of Representatives and the size of its federal tax bill. »
• « The measure passed the House of Representatives but was defeated in the Senate. When Polk tried again to raise revenue the following year (to pay for the lands taken from Mexico), the Wilmot Proviso was reintroduced, this time calling for the prohibition of slavery not only in the Mexican Cession but in all U.S. territories. The revenue bill passed, but without the clause. »