Is there any one person of any rank within the druid order that can command that a group disband?
In 1965 the Council of Dalon Ap Landu (the governing body of the Reformed Druid movement) interpreted that Groves in Reformed Druidism can operate autonomously with little or no intervention from the Council or its chairperson (the Arch-Druid of Carleton College Grove).
However, in the tradition of Reformed Druidism, formal Groves are expected to establish a Constitution or Charter for their group, and submit a copy of it to the Arch-Druid of Carleton College. The Arch-Druid would work with the Archivist to add the document to the International Druid Archives, housed in the basement of the college library. The Arch-Druid of Carleton would not be allowed to remove or destroy any documents, but they would certainly be able to add any manner of note, statement, or declaration alongside the charter, and their word would become the record.
So far in the 58 years of Reformed Druidism, this scenario has never happened. It would take something egregious along the lines of animal sacrifice for it to be warranted. Animal, blood, or human sacrifice is forbidden in Reformed Druidism, and is never permissible, not even under the Grove Autonomy provision. It would be categorically "un-reformed" in accordance with the principles of the order's foundation.
In reality, a Grove is statistically more likely to fizzle out than get shunned as a "Grova non grata."
Above: Oakdale Grove's copy of its constitution. Its twin resides in the International Druid Archives.
