Supporters of the initiative have portrayed support for it as another example in an anti-incumbent year of voters rejecting authority.
Perhaps today's equivalent is conversion to Islam, a route taken by about 14,000 Britons, according to one estimate: they range from dons and diplomats who embrace Sufi mysticism to angry inner-city youths who see in radical Islam a way of rejecting authority with a vengeance.In modern Britain, though, the most striking schism is between those of faith any faith and those of none.
He quietly rejected authority figures — teachers, coaches, host families — who treated him with what he sensed was distrust.
Mulder the maverick, fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants character who rejects authority and the establishment; Scully – until she started to believe at least – the perennial pragmatist; disciplined, methodical and obsessed with rational explanation.
Professor Linda Woodhead, of Lancaster University, has polling data showing that each successive cohort of Anglicans is more liberal than its predecessor, in the sense that it rejects authority more and trusts its own judgment more when making moral decisions.
Authoritarianism differs between those who submit to and those who reject authority.
According to multiple studies, entrepreneurs demand independence, reject authority, and don't like being told what to do.
Liberalism replaces those rejected authorities with the idea of individual rights and it becomes the liberal project to build a political system and a system of value on that foundation.
Rightwing extremists, for example, are broadly defined in the report as individuals and groups "that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely".
"Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly anti-government, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely," the DHS report reads.
"What I think they're really objecting to is the fact that a young person is rejecting the authority and wisdom of the governing body," she said.
