Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Separatist Saints. The Mayflower company was, to begin with, no homogenous assembly of pious churchmen, but a mixed bag of cantankerous "saints and strangers"-angry religious rebels and ungodly adventurers who took unseemly pleasure in hurling invective at one another. The "saints" were bona fide revolutionaries-reformers within a Reformation. The Anglican Church under the Stuarts, with its emphasis on bishops and mandated ritual, was for them hardly more pure or godly than the "whore of Rome," as they called the Roman Catholic Church. The Bible should be the only authority, the reformers felt. Some also believed that each congregation...
Democracy in government hardly existed. The Mayflower Compact was only an agreement to ensure self-government and good order for the new colony, and it was neither signed by all nor did it contain any democratic guarantees. The Separatist elite kept tight hold on the reins of government and sometimes made life uncomfortable for those not among the "saints." When Bradford permitted Anglican members of the community to abstain from work on Christmas-a holiday not observed by the Separatists-he expected them to observe the day solemnly. Finding some men playing sports, he "took away their implements" and sent...
...Minster Pierre Elliott Trudeau. It was impossible to know whether Trudeau, a staunch Canadian federalist, stayed away because he was still furious over De Gaulle's famous cry "Vive la Québec libre!" during a 1967 visit there, or simply too burdened by the emergency caused by separatist terrorism. The former seems probable...
...murder of the 49-year-old Laporte, like Trudeau a French-Canadian and an opponent of the Quebec separatist movement, stunned the nation. Mail and phone calls flooding into Ottawa ran 97% in favor of the Prime Minister's tough stance. Some 2,000 Canadians gathered on Parliament Hill in Ottawa to sing the national anthem, O Canada; the House of Commons approved the invocation of the War Measures Act by an overwhelming 190-16 margin...
During the week, Trudeau's government repeatedly cited three reasons for its tough action, and each seemed to have at least some validity. First, Ottawa felt it had to counter what one official called "an erosion of public opinion" in Quebec, whose French-Canadian population might have embraced the separatist creed more warmly than ever had the government wavered in the face of the F.L.Q. challenge; that fear was heightened by the fact that Montreal is holding municipal elections this week. Second, Ottawa wanted to reassert the principle of federalism as strongly as possible. Finally, there was the F.L.Q. itself...