habitation clause

(noun)

Clause in the Twelfth Amendment that stipulates that an elector may not vote for presidential and vice-presidential candidates who both inhabit the elector's state.

Related Terms

  • vice president
  • electoral college

Examples of habitation clause in the following topics:

  • Moods in Dependent Clauses

  • Structure of a Sentence

    • A simple sentence consists of a single independent clause with no subordinate clauses.
    • A compound sentence consists of multiple independent clauses with no subordinate clauses.
    • A complex sentence consists of at least one independent clause and one subordinate clause.
    • "If-then" sentences are complex sentences: "If Americans don't change their dietary habits, the medical system will soon be bankrupt."
    • This sentence contains two independent clauses (one before and one after the comma), and each independent clause contains a subordinate clause ("what you eat" and "what you are").
  • Varying Your Sentence Structure and Vocabulary

    • Clauses: The easiest way to vary sentence length and structure is with clauses.
    • Multi-clause sentences can connect related ideas, provide additional detail, and vary the pattern of your language.
    • Clauses can vary in length, too.
    • The vision appealed to their consumption habits.
    • The novel presents a society that easily dispels the nuisance of poverty and working-class strife while maintaining the pleasure of middle-class consumptive habits."
  • The Establishment Clause: Separation of Church and State

    • The Establishment Clause in the First Amendment to the Constitution states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. " Together with the Free Exercise Clause ("... or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"), these two clauses make up what are called the "religion clauses" of the First Amendment.
    • Incorporation of the Establishment Clause in 1947 has been tricky and subject to much more critique than incorporation of the Free Exercise Clause.
    • Critics have also argued that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is understood to incorporate only individual rights found in the Bill of Rights; the Establishment Clause, unlike the Free Exercise Clause (which critics readily concede protects individual rights), does not purport to protect individual rights.
    • One main question of the Establishment Clause is: does government financial assistance to religious groups violate the Establishment Clause?
    • Distinguish the Establishment Clause from other clauses of the First Amendment
  • The Free Exercise Clause: Freedom of Religion

    • The Free Exercise Clause is the accompanying clause with the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
    • The Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause together read:" Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
    • Then it took on a relatively narrow view of the governmental restrictions required under the clause.
    • This interpretation of the Free Exercise Clause continued into the 1960s.
    • Describe how the interpretation of the Free Exercise clause has changed over time.
  • Promoting the General Welfare

    • In many constitutions, the general welfare clause has been used as a basis for promoting the well-being of the governed people.
    • The Preamble of the United States Constitution states that the Union was established "to promote the general Welfare. " The Taxing and Spending Clause is the clause that gives the federal government of the United States its power of taxation.
    • There have been different interpretations of the meaning of the General Welfare clause.
    • General Welfare clause arises from two distinct disagreements: The first concerns whether the General Welfare clause grants an independent spending power or is a restriction upon the taxing power; the second disagreement pertains to what exactly is meant by the phrase "general welfare. "
    • Illustrate how the General Welfare clause of the Constitution is applied to public policy
  • What About The BSD License?

    • Fortunately, many of the projects that used this license became aware of the problem, and simply dropped the advertising clause.
    • The result is the revised BSD license, which is simply the original BSD license with the advertising clause removed.
    • However, there is perhaps one reason to prefer the revised BSD license to the MIT/X license, which is that the BSD includes this clause:
    • It's not clear that without such a clause, a recipient of the software would have had the right to use the licensor's name anyway, but the clause removes any possible doubt.
    • If you wish to use the most recent revised BSD license, a template is available at opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause.
  • Variations in Orality

    • The ‘sturdy oak tree', the ‘beautiful princess' or ‘clever Odysseus' -- these words are brought together out of habit during general communication.
    • Oral cultures avoid complex ‘subordinative' clauses.
    • The words are brought together out of habit during general communication.
  • Verb Position

    • One of the most important grammatical concepts in German is that the conjugated verb is always in the second position of the main clause.  
    • Adverbial and prepositional phrases, and even direct and indirect objects can be the first element of the clause.  
    • Understand the position of the conjugated verb in a main clause
  • Semicolons

    • Semicolons are used to link related clauses and to separate clauses that contain additional punctuation.
    • Semicolons, like colons and commas, indicate pauses within a sentence to show relationships between words and clauses.
    • Semicolons also link clauses of equal importance, but unlike commas, do not always require a coordinating conjunction.
    • Semicolons can join closely related independent clauses that are not linked with a coordinating conjunction:
    • Semicolons can also be used between independent clauses linked with a transitional phrase or a conjunctive adverb.
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