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Definition of Self-government
1. Noun. Government of a political unit by its own people.
Generic synonyms: Autonomy, Liberty
Specialized synonyms: Sovereignty, Local Option, Home Rule
Definition of Self-government
1. Noun. The governance of a region by its own populace; autonomy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-government
Literary usage of Self-government
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"STUDENT self-government. Student self-government as an organized system is the
product of modern times and of democratic ideas. ..."
2. The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia: A Comprehensive Collection of the Views of by Thomas Jefferson (1900)
"It is a happy truth that man is capable of self-government, and only rendered
... We are able to preserve our self-government if we will but think so. ..."
3. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1921)
"GREEK self-government THE GREEKS WERE THE FIRST PEOPLE TO TRY THE DIFFICULT
EXPERIMENT OF self-government IN the beginning, all the Greeks had been equally ..."
4. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1921)
"GREEK self-government THE GREEKS WERE THE FIRST PEOPLE TO TRY THE DIFFICULT
EXPERIMENT OF self-government IN the beginning, all the Greeks had been equally ..."
5. Punishment and Reformation: An Historical Sketch of the Rise of the by Frederick Howard Wines (1919)
"self-government is simply an embodiment of the idea that if prisoners are to
improve in the ways of normal living, if they are to grow more self-reliant in ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1887)
"self-government versus HOME RULE. " Is the Unionist cause losing ground 1" is a
question that has been asked with bated breath. But it is good the question ..."
7. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Local self-government. system inaugurated bv the Military Commission. It began
by asserting the dutv of every man to share in the work of national defence. ..."
8. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1908)
"CITIZENSHIP AND self-government FOR PORTO RICANS ADDRESS OF MARTIN TRAVIESO, JR.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: Before I enter into ..."
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