Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I was tremendously fortunate to be alive and a lawyer, working at a university so I had more flexible hours, when the women's movement was coming alive and when it became possible to argue successfully for a view of the equal protection clause that included women.

American Judge

Kurt Vonnegut

There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.

American Writer

Karen DeCrow

Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.

American Activist

Jeff Lindsay

I made a deliberate choice to write something people would enjoy, not knock people out with 'Boy, he can really put a clause together!

American Playwright

Michael Kinsley

The 'takings' clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.

American Journalist

Jessica Chastain

If you want me in your film, do a favored-nation clause. Don't determine my worth based on what's left over.

American Actress

Israel Folau

I never had a special social media clause, I had a standard contract, the same as every other player.

Australian Athlete

Lisa Madigan

A ban on same-sex marriage violates the state Constitution's equal protection clause.

American Public Servant

Theresa May

You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.

British Politician

James Burrows

I have a fun clause in my contract. If I'm not having fun, I can leave.

American Director

Understand that an independent clause can stand alone as a sentence, but a dependent clause cannot.

Independent Versus Dependent

Relative clauses begin with who, that, or which and connect extra information to a noun.

Relative Clauses

A sentence can have multiple clauses of the same or different types to add complexity.

Multiple Clauses

In legal contexts, a clause is very specific and often relates to rights or obligations.

Contract Specifics

Clarity is key; ambiguities in legal clauses can lead to disputes or litigation.

Legal Ambiguity

The interpretation of a legal clause can vary by jurisdiction, acknowledging cultural influences.

Cultural Legal Differences

 who formally elect the President and Vice President of the United States. To understand how this process began and how it continues today, we can look at the Constitution of the United article two, section one, clause two of the constitution. It specifies how many electors each state is entitled to have.

Does your vote count?...

 people in the United States and elsewhere began employing them in a new specifically, to racially restrict properties. They wrote clauses into deeds that were meant to prevent  all future owners from selling or leasing to certain racial and ethnic groups, especially Black people.

Why are US cities still...

 masters of the universe actually evolved as nothing more than a pack of hunting dogs maybe we evolved as a hunting pack animal because the one advantage we have in the wilderness it's not our fangs another clause in our speed the only thing we do really really well is is

Are we born to run? -...

 In list-like sentences, it can exert more force than commas do, cutting sentences into compartments and grouping items that belong together. The semicolon breaks things up, but it also builds connections. Another of its tasks is to link together independent clauses.

How to use a semicolon -...

 does your friend have a point? Was your sentence actually grammatically incorrect? And if he still understood it, why does it even matter? From the point of view of linguistics, grammar is a set of patterns for how words are put together to form phrases or clauses,

Does grammar matter? -...

 I like to think of the different parts of our sentence as characters. Let's meet a few of the tiny conjunctions, the mighty subordinates, and the clever comma. Conjunctions are small and nimble. They are words that connect clauses, words,

Comma story - Terisa...

 have upright monuments out in isolated clauses and things that that Palenque instead given the great limestone sources they had put big slabs on the walls of the temples and this helped to preserve the inscriptions and the

Palenque and the Ancient...

 confusing headlines like this appear all the time. Modifiers are words, phrases, and clauses that add information about other parts of a sentence, which is usually helpful. But when modifiers aren't linked clearly enough

How misused modifiers...

 of the poll taxes of the literacy tests of the understanding tests of the grandfather clauses that characterize the 19th amendment era the lynching the violence um today i think is mirrored in a corona virus that has

Black Women and the...

 that is embedded in the capitalist dream. So when I told them about my pregnancy, I asked for a clause in the contract that specified they wouldn't reduce my pay within 12 months of giving birth. They said yes.