If party leaders wanted to exclude blacks from elective office, they could; they didn't need black support.

This excluded most native Welsh people from formal office.

Such political figures, state media said, should be excluded from holding high office.

As such they were excluded from public office and the universities.

This section had served to exclude women from political office.

There was also an attempt to exclude the magnati from public office.

At the time, colonial laws excluded Catholics from holding public office.

Three years later, convinced that the town's form of government excluded her and other blacks from public office, she sued.

The effect of this act was to exclude nonconformists from public office.

The intention of the act was to exclude Catholics and dissenters from public office.