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disestablish
verb as in abolish
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Federal policies at various points in history sought to disestablish reservations and force Native Americans into cities.
Federal policies at various points in history sought to disestablish reservations and force Native Americans into cities.
It does, however, appear in a famous early version of the Constitution riddled with printer’s errors, popularly called the “Devil’s Constitution,” which, because of a series of bewildering misprints, vows to form a “less perfect union, disestablish justice, and destroy domestic tranquility,” advocates the violent storming of the legislature in the event of an electoral outcome with which a minority of the people is dissatisfied, and, confusingly, gives detailed mention to the filibuster more than two decades before it was invented.
Supreme Court ruling last year that determined a large swath of eastern Oklahoma remains an Indian reservation, because Congress never voted to disestablish it.
Supreme Court ruling last year that determined a large swath of eastern Oklahoma remains an Indian reservation, because Congress never voted to disestablish it.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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