Political science: antidisestablishmentarianism

Self-tutoring about political science: the tutor mentions a famous term.

Never say never, you often hear. Moreover, one comes to see why: what seems very unlikely has a way of happening eventually. Such a case is this article.

I heard the word antidisestablishmentarianism back in university and thought it was pretentious and bogus. I never thought I’d use it, write it, or think about it except in a satirical way. Yet, I thought wrong.

It turns out that antidisestablishmentarianism makes sense once you realize its origin. It opposes the view that a state church should be separated, or disestablished, relative to the government. Disestablishmentarianists want to disestablish the state church to achieve separation of church and state.

Therefore, antidisestablishmentarianism says that the state church should be maintained, as has been the Church of England. In contrast, although it says “in God we trust” on American money, the United States seems not to have a state church. As a result of the American Revolution, the Church of England there was disestablished.

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