The majority of early Particular Baptists rejected open membership and open communion.

Some public opinion polls show that Norwegians might reject membership, as they did once before in the early 1970's.

A nationwide vote, set for March, is the first on the issue since 1986, when voters rejected membership by a 3-to-1 margin.

Swiss voters had rejected membership by a 3-to-1 margin in 1986.

"In 1972, when we rejected membership, we were at the starting point of our oil," he said.

Last December, they decided by a margin of 51 to 49 percent to reject membership in the 11-nation European Union.

Earlier than that, voting in a national referendum, the Poles came within a whisker of rejecting membership altogether.

He rejected membership in the Magazine Publishers of America, the industry association.

She was then secretary-general from 1991 to 1995; during this period the Norwegian people rejected membership in the 1994 referendum.

Voters in Norway narrowly rejected membership in 1973, when they were last asked.