disestablish
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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
Secularism accordingly seeks to dispel superstition; to spread education; to disestablish religion; to rationalize morality; to promote peace; to dignify labour; to extend material well-being; and to realize the self-government of the people.
From A Grammar of Freethought by Chapman Cohen
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
Supreme Court reversed the state child molestation convictions of McGirt because he is Native American and the crime occurred on a tribal reservation that was never disestablished by Congress.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
The Court of Criminal Appeals is expected to affirm recent state court rulings that the reservations of the other four tribes were never disestablished.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 16, 2020
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
In 1868 the Irish church was disestablished and disendowed, and a portion of its funds devoted to education.
From History of Human Society by Frank W. (Frank Wilson) Blackmar
“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
