For the negroes it was argued that Irwin's Code, which was made part of the law of the state by the constitution,[162] enumerated among the rights of citizens the right to hold office.
As the negro had no right to hold office because he was a citizen, and as he could not claim the right from common law or custom, he could obtain it only by specific grant of law.
He allowed the offices to be thrown open to all such as had property worth ten myriad denarii and were competent to hold officein accordance with the law.
Substitutes granting to women Municipal Suffrage, School Suffrage, the right to hold office, the privilege of voting on the constitution, all were defeated.
The majority preferred to join the Connecticut colony, for the other, like Massachusetts, would permit no one not a member of church to vote or hold office.
That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office.
They believe that the New Testament is the only rule of faith, that there is no original sin, that infants should not be baptized, and that Christians ought not to take oath, hold office, or render military service.
In England woman may be Queen, hold office, and vote on some questions.
I protest in the name of my countrywomen against the aspersion which is cast upon them by those who say that woman is not fit to hold office or discharge public trusts.
He showed the importance of woman's moral power infused into the politics of the country, and of the independence of those outside of party lines, who neither vote or hold office, to criticise the shortcomings of our rulers.
In the Senate it met with great opposition because it omitted to secure in terms the right to hold office.
The enjoyment of the right to vote has not been fully secured to the negro race, but no one has appeared to deny his right to hold office.
However, I met the difficulty by an argument in which I maintained that the right to vote carried with it the right to hold office.
He proposed to insert after the words "to vote" the words "or hold office.
A still more objectionable feature, and one deliberately inserted, is the clause debarring women from the right to hold office.
This decision of the Court, which was in conflict with the English Constitution, also brought about the loss of the right of the women of Scotland and Ireland to hold office as county councillors.
Nevertheless, the reactionary Education Act of June, 1903, took away from the women the right to hold office as members of school boards in the County of London.
So, when Cardinal Manrique issued by wholesale licences to hold office, to the large districts of Seville, Cordova, Granada and Leon, there is no allusion to papal dispensations.
On the contrary, they stand, in this respect, upon the same footing as men, with the sole exception of the right to vote and the right to hold office.
How many of the large class to whom the right of voting is supposed to have been secured by the fifteenth amendment, are qualified to hold office?
And among them is the right to exercise the elective franchise, and to hold office.
Must a man own property in order to vote or hold office?
As political rights and privileges are not dependent upon, or modified by property, therefore no property qualification ought to affect the right to vote or hold office.
The Society decided to invite men into their organization, but not to allow them to hold office or to vote.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hold office" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
