Cadence [ca-dence] as a girls' name is pronounced KAY-dens. It is of Latin origin, and the meaning of Cadence is with rhythm. Modern name based on the musical term. A feminine name linked with the masculine name Caden. Literary: Cadence Roth is the main character in Armistead Maupin's 1992 novel Maybe the Moon.
In Powell v. Alabama, the 1932 Supreme Court decision involving several black youths accused of raping two white girls on a train. the court ruled that the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires states to provide the rudiments of a fair trialâfundamental fairness.
The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's  race, color, or previous condition of servitude..n April and December 1869, Congress passed Reconstruction bills mandating that Virginia, Mississippi, Texas and Georgia ratify the amendment as a precondition to regaining congressional representation; all four states did so.