disestablish
Example Sentences
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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
Dr. Priestley, the most copious of the Dissenting writers, had expressed his desire to disestablish the English Church.
From A Short History of English Liberalism by Blease, Walter Lyon
