Nonconformists
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Dissenters · Dissenting interest · Dissent · Dissenting ministers · Dissenting undergraduates · Nonconforming M.A.s · dissenters · persons not members of the Church of England · the Nonconformist conscience
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1 expressionDissenters“Nonconformists”4 mentions
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England (English) · Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated (English)
The Established Church is more influential and more popular in 1904, than it was in 1830, and the influence of Nonconformists is, under the democratic constitution of to-day, apparently less considerable than was the influence some sixty or seventy years ago of what was then called the Dissenting interest.
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Protestant Dissenters and other non-Anglicans whose grievances regarding marriage, burial, universities, and civil disabilities drove much of the external reform described.
Nonconformists who stood outside the National Church in 1832 have not been brought within its limits.
Thus national education has been for more than fifty years the field of battle between Church and Dissent, each settlement has been the basis of renewed dispute, and even now controversy is not closed, simply because the law has never established any definite principle.
By 1854 the political disabilities of Nonconformists and Roman Catholics were for the most part, though not entirely, abolished.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
English religious dissenters, invoked as an analogy for occupations taxed to support a favored group.
nor to press to existing similitude of these dissenters being taxed in England to raise bounties for the episcopal clergy, who more nearly resemble those who will get the protecting-duty bounties;
Law in a Free State
English Protestant dissenters, whose 'conscience' is invoked as an unlikely source of support for individualist objections to State education.
It is hardly to the Nonconformist conscience that individualists would look for help in this matter: