Brewer's: Ironclad Oath

(The), 1866. An Act passed in North America excluding voters in the States lately in rebellion from the franchise; practically disfranchising all Southerners over twenty-five years of age.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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