Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Self-government.
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- noun
Rule of a group of people by their own leaders as opposed to rule imposed by a foreign government or people.
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- noun government of a political unit by its own people
Etymologies
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Examples
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To solve the lack of order they saw all around them, the fathers seized on one of the great—and often missed—ironies in world history: the only thing that could make men forsake their own freedom and still believe they were free was self-rule.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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It proved to be far more menacing to repressive self-rule in the American republic than it was to social order under the king.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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In 1772, he organized a “committee of correspondence” that proclaimed the right of the colonies to self-rule.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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In response to the Boston Tea Party, in 1774 Parliament passed a series of Coercive Acts that closed the port of Boston, eliminated most forms of self-rule in Massachusetts, and allowed British soldiers to be housed in colonial buildings.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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A little known but crucial feature of Iraq's culture that has a huge impact on attitudes toward corruption and capacity for self-rule is prevalence of cousin marriage.
Culture or Institutions?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Instead of asserting American Exceptionalism, instead of boldly standing for freedom and self-rule, this administration has cozied up to dictators around the world.
Ken Blackwell: The Iron Lady vs. the Tin Woman Ken Blackwell 2011
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Elections, after all, are the very cornerstone of our dream of effective self-rule.
What can we expect of democracy? Steven E. Levingston 2010
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Instead of asserting American Exceptionalism, instead of boldly standing for freedom and self-rule, this administration has cozied up to dictators around the world.
Ken Blackwell: The Iron Lady vs. the Tin Woman Ken Blackwell 2011
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The party had appealed to voters to give it a mandate to demand self-rule in the Tamil-majority areas.
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The party had appealed to voters to give it a mandate to demand self-rule in the Tamil-majority areas.
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