disestablish

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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

Interior Secretary David Bernhardt responded by moving to disestablish the tribe’s trust status, “which requires Interior to rescind its earlier decision,” said department spokesman Conner Swanson in a statement.

From Washington Times • Apr. 8, 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

At any rate—isn't it droll how these things come about?—David's action in this matter, undertaken he hardly knew why—did much to fetter Mr. Lloyd George's subsequent attempts to disestablish the British Church in Wales.

From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir