Word: disestablish
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...content to let a wide range of heads do a lot of talking about the brutal death of special agents Jack Coler and Ron Williams on June 26, 1975. At that time, the radical American Indian Movement was seeking to re-establish traditional tribal ways and to disestablish a tribal leadership it considered corrupt. Its opponents responded with terror squads, and between them the two sides created something close to a civil war on the reservation...
...reason I feel strongly," she adds, is, "if the city can establish a religion, then it can disestablish a religion by inference." Wolf says she has this "strong feeling" as a "card-carrying member of the ACLU" (American Civil Liberties Union...
...Protestants, while Catholics, Buddhists, Jews, Mohammedans and others must foot the bill for their own, equally beautiful and educational religious programs. If there is to be no distinction made between members of an "established" church at Harvard and members of "unestablished" churches, the answer wouls seem to be to "disestablish" the preachership altogether. To use the money of members of other religions for services which they cannot attend (if they are to be faithful to their own) is a very real kind of taxation without representation...
...election of Griffiths and Colburn is, of course, not indicative of any identifiable trend among youthful voters. Neither man may be considered a radical. Says Griffiths: "We are not out to disestablish the establishment." Moreover, both had substantial off-campus support. But for those looking to 1972, the dramatic demonstration of youth power in East Lansing shows that when students choose to throw their weight behind a candidate who also has local strength, they can make the difference...
...Massachusetts became the last state to disestablish a religion. In the 1840s, a New Orleans priest named Permoldi, convicted for conducting a burial according to his religious convictions but in contravention of Louisiana's burial laws, argued protection of religious liberty under the federal Constitution, and was told by the Supreme Court that the federal Constitution offered no such protection since it announced no "inhibition" of state religious policy...