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dissenter

[dih-sen-ter] / dɪˈsɛn tər /


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Today, Harlan is celebrated in history as the Great Dissenter.

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2022

Justice Ginsburg, left behind, is being called the Great Dissenter.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2015

Meanwhile in an interview with Firedoglake’s The Dissenter this week, the ex-CIA agent said, “I am wearing my conviction as a badge of honor”: I am proud that I stood up to our government.

From Salon • Jan. 25, 2013

September 1, 2010, Go to Blog » The Dissenter, Justice John Paul Stevens Three decades ago, he was appointed to the Supreme Court as a judicial conservative and moderate Republican.

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2010

The qualifying oath, as to the great number of offices and seats in Parliament, scrupulously evades religious distinctions; a Dissenter of any class may take it, a Deist, an atheist, may likewise take it.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various




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