self-governing

Examples of self-government

self-government
The franchise was regarded as a domestic issue to be resolved once self-government had been attained.
During the 1860s and 1870s, then, local self-government became a distinctively liberal concern.
The people saw it, accordingly, as very much the reflection of their chosen form of self-government.
Worms had gained important powers of self-government in the later twelfth century, notwithstanding the claim of the bishop.
According to various descriptions, testimonies and sociological surveys, the attempt to organise workers' self-government was non-ideological and pragmatic.
Nationalist sentiment for racial equality and self-government was shaking the very foundations and premises upon which foreign rule rested.
Her discussion of these latter reforms was limited to provincial assemblies and local self-government initiatives.
One of the issues which was discussed was workers' self-government.
As an art, self-government engenders questions of autonomy, invention, and how the individual thinks of herself, her conduct and her ways of living and being.
When this time comes, the monarchists want to be ready to make a credible claim for autonomous local self-government in a federal system.
They also debated the need for "local self-government", though at this time through the jury and the panchayat system.
His nightmare was that self-government might be granted to colonies before that unity had been fostered.
The administrative reforms have included all types of enlargement, enhancement and authorisation of regional and federal power, leaving only limited functions to local self-government.
The proposal was turned down by the centre and bourgeois parties who argued that the effects on public expenditure and local self-government were unacceptable.
In fact, contemporary economics and technology increasingly present dominations and powers beyond the control of the state, rendering even the idea of self-government problematic.
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