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  2. Dissent - Wikipedia

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    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, ...

  3. Dissenting opinion - Wikipedia

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    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".

  4. Dissenter - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. The Etiquette of Dissent - AOL

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    The etiquette of living in dissent there­after, especially if it goes on for a long time, is another matter. In theory, we are supposed to learn how to be good losers as kids. Athletic leagues ...

  6. English Dissenters - Wikipedia

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    Anabaptist (literally, "baptised again") was a term given to those Reformation Christians who rejected the notion of infant baptism in favour of believer's baptism. [4] It is generally assumed that during the Interregnum, the Baptists and other dissenting groups absorbed the British Anabaptists.

  7. Political dissent - Wikipedia

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    Political dissent is a dissatisfaction with or opposition to the policies of a governing body. Expressions of dissent may take forms from vocal disagreement to civil disobedience to the use of violence. [1] The Constitution of the United States regards non-violent demonstration and disagreement with the government as fundamental American values ...

  8. What does 'woke' mean now? Erykah Badu, who popularized it ...

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    The newer meaning of the word has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary and the Merriam-Webster dictionary, which now defines it as being "aware of and actively attentive to important facts ...

  9. Dissident - Wikipedia

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    A dissident is a person who actively challenges an established political or religious system, doctrine, belief, policy, or institution. [1] In a religious context, the word has been used since the 18th century, and in the political sense since the 20th century, coinciding with the rise of authoritarian governments in countries such as Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, Francoist ...