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Federal policies at various points in history sought to disestablish reservations and force Native Americans into cities.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 6, 2023

Virginia Heffernan talks to Fordham Law professor Jed Shugerman, about the big picture behind Amy Coney Barrett, ways we can disestablish the Senate, and the concept of originalism when interpreting the U.S.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2020

Influenced by deistic distaste for sectarian disputes, pragmatic politicians would eventually decide that the best solution was to disestablish the churches and cut off public funding in the name of religious freedom.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

Government programs, once established, do not tend to disestablish themselves, but the growth and modernization of the federal government was probably inevitable.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 21, 2015

In 1894, it is a question of the day whether the Christian English will disestablish them and assign their endowments to purposes less holy.

From The Christian Church in These Islands before the Coming of Augustine Three Lectures Delivered at St. Paul's in January 1894 by G. F. (George Forrest) Browne

We live in a proudly rebellious country that fought a divisive Revolutionary War to get rid of kings and lords, establishing a nation that disestablishes religion.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2012

In Ireland it disestablishes and disendows a hierarchy.

From The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

The structure of state government and public infrastructure were built on the understanding that Congress had disestablished the former reservations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

The court‘s ruling was based on the U.S. Supreme Court‘s landmark 2020 decision that found that much of eastern Oklahoma, including Tulsa, remains an Indian reservation because it was never formally disestablished by Congress.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

Since then, lower courts have found the reservations of five other Native American tribes were also never disestablished, including the Chickasaw, Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole and Quapaw.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 2021

It was launched in 1985 and disestablished in 2002 as the Pentagon reorganized in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2019

And the Irish Church was not only disestablished but disendowed.

From Practical Politics; or, the Liberalism of To-day by Alfred Farthing Robbins

“I have not heard anyone seriously contemplating the idea of disestablishing it,” Harrison said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2020

But quickly that changed and people saw that that was not consistent with the fundamental freedom of the revolutionary spirit and you had the process of disestablishing all of these state churches over time.

From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2017

In “Phineas Redux,” Mr. Daubeny, the Conservative Disraeli figure, decides to keep power by proposing the radical idea of disestablishing the Church of England.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 27, 2015

Thus the Sunday Closing Act was celebrated in Wales as an important step on the road to disestablishing the Anglican church and getting the nonconformist chapels recognised on the same footing.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2011

But now, with these ideas in our head, we come across the present operation for disestablishing the Irish Church by the power of the Nonconformists' antipathy to religious establishments and endowments.

From Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold