Word: dissents
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...DISSENT: Endorsement Misplaced...
...following the Founding Fathers' careful protections of individual liberties, the French made the unity of their people the highest goal. "Curiously," Dunn writes, "all the qualities that had traditionally been attributed to the quasi-divine king--oneness, indivisibility, infallibility--were transferred to the revolutionary 'people.'" This formulation outlawed dissent--how could one body disagree with itself?--and led, by conservative estimates, some 17,000 French men and women to the guillotine. Near the end of the Terror, Robespierre told the National Assembly that the majority of the population might have to be executed for treason...
...School Committee supported the measure by a five-to-two vote, which Lim says shows a degree of dissent...
...DISSENT: Paying Our Dues...
...funds from groups or organizations is itself a powerful form of expression. An optional term bill fee would allow students to voice their disapproval of groups which they found offensive by choosing not to fund them. To deny them this opportunity is to deny them a powerful avenue of dissent...