 The Construction also provided for obligatory state registration of all churches and religious congregations and placed a series of restrictions on priests and ministers of all religions, who were not allowed to hold public office, canvas on behalf of political parties or candidates, or inherit from persons other than close blood relatives.Ir also allowed the state to regulate the number of priests in each region and even to reduce the number to zero, and it forbade the wearing of religious garb and excluded offenders from a trial by jury.Carranza declared himself opposed to the final draft of Articles 3, 5, 24, 27, 123 and 130, but the Constitutional Congress contained only 85 conservatives and centrists who were close to Carranza's rather restrictive brand of "liberalism."