antidisestablishmentarianisms

Noun

antidisestablishmentarianism (usually uncountable, plural antidisestablishmentarianisms)

1. (usually) A political philosophy opposed to the separation of a religious group (church) and a government (state), especially the belief held by those in 19th-century England opposed to separating the Anglican church from the civil government, or the separation of church and state.
   • Jed Rubenfeld, who actually may not have been recycling a Boerne Court- rejected argument into a law review article,⁴⁵⁰ reasoned that RFRA indeed lacked constitutionality, but because of First Amendment antidisestablishmentarianism, and not the reasons offered by the Court.⁴⁵¹1998, University of Oklahoma College of Law, American Indian Law Review

   Antonyms:

   disestablishmentarianism