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Sticker art arguing that dissent is necessary for democracy. Dissent is an opinion, philosophy or sentiment of non-agreement or opposition to a prevailing idea or policy enforced under the authority of a government, political party or other entity or individual. A dissenting person may be referred to as a dissenter.
A dissent in part is a dissenting opinion which disagrees selectively with one or more parts of the majority holding. In decisions that require holdings with multiple parts due to multiple legal claims or consolidated cases, judges may write an opinion "concurring in part and dissenting in part".
The term has also been applied to those bodies who dissent from the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, [1] which is the national church of Scotland. [4] In this connotation, the terms dissenter and dissenting, which had acquired a somewhat contemptuous flavor, have tended since the middle of the 18th century to be replaced by nonconformist, a term which did not originally imply secession, but ...
Dissent is a philosophy of non-agreement with a prevailing idea or entity Dissent may also mean: Dissent (American magazine), an American political magazine founded in 1954; Dissent (Australian magazine), an Australian political magazine published from 2000 to 2014; Dissent, an EP by Misery Index; Dissent! (network), a G8 protest group
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a blistering dissent in the Trump immunity ruling, arguing that it "reshapes the institution of the presidency" and "makes a mockery" of the ...
A new report by the Rome-based rights group Safeguard Defenders, published Sunday to mark International Human Rights Day, alleges that China’s government has stepped up its use of “collective ...
The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) is the largest thesaurus in the world. It is called a historical thesaurus as it arranges the whole vocabulary of English, from the earliest written records in Old English to the present, according to the first documented occurrence of a word in the entire history of the English language.
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