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Test Act

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Test Act
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(Historical Terms) a law passed in 1673 in England to exclude Catholics from public life by requiring all persons holding offices under the Crown, such as army officers, to take the Anglican Communion and perform other acts forbidden to a Catholic: repealed in 1828


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There has never been a Catholic Prime Minister in Britain and the 17th-century Test Acts were designed to keep it that way.
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