Word: disestablish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier Baldwin himself supported Mr. Bridgeman, pointing out that the proposed revision was a compromise between high and low church opinion. He warned that to deny the church her carefully chosen ground of compromise would be to weaken her authority to a point at which proposals to disestablish the Church might again be made. "How many members of this House," he concluded, 'believe that the Church would survive disestablishment? I believe that I am right in thinking that the spirit . . . of compromise which has been a mark of the Church of England for centuries is a thing worth preserving...
...Potter's remarks are interesting and probably many valuable conclusions could be drawn from them. But his method of cultural geography would seem to be doomed to be ineffective. All it can establish or disestablish is reputation, and that is established already...