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 Supreme Court uses the 14th amendment to apply the protections of the Bill of Rights to the states. For example, in the 1925 case of gitlow V. New York, a man was indicted by the state for Seditious speech. The court found that the federal protection of free-speech should be applied to the states.