The continuing enactment of parliamentary reform during the ensuing administrations further extended the initially limited franchise.

Private companies build the roads and are given a limited franchise.

It gave a limited franchise to people of mixed race but none to the black majority.

They came in on the promise of a limited franchise, a principle I don't hold with but still a principle.

In the half-century following the American Revolution efforts were made to extend the limited franchise more widely.

The Act provided for a limited adult franchise based on property qualifications.

Despite this limited franchise, Athenian democracy was certainly the first - and perhaps the best - example of a working direct democracy.

Neither Jefferson nor I fretted particularly over the Constitution's limited franchise.

Till then, all the previous elections had been conducted on a limited franchise based on property ownership qualifications.

There was no universal and equal suffrage, but a mixture of privilege and limited franchise.