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
Gentleman the Home Secretary, in his speech last night, said that this proposal to disestablish the Established Church of Ireland was, in point of fact, in some sort a revolution.
From Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1 by John Bright
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
Supreme Court ruling known as the McGirt decision, that held the Muscogee Nation reservation in northeast Oklahoma was never disestablished by Congress.
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
When the church was disestablished after the Revolution it was agreed that it would be left in possession of her property.
From Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck by Harrison Williams
“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
They might begin the work of encouragement by disestablishing and disendowing art; by withdrawing doles from art schools, and confiscating the moneys misused by the Royal Academy.
From Art by Clive Bell
