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Meanings of self-government in English

Portuguese
autodeterminação
Catalan
autogovern
Spanish
derecho de autodeterminación

Government of a political unit by its own people.

        autodeterminação
        Usage of self-government in English
        1
        The last time that happened it took five years to re-establish self-government.
        Reuters
        2
        In point of fact self-government and representation are unknown in these islands.
        The Story of the Philippines / Natural Riches, Industrial Resour...
        3
        The struggle for self-government seemed to have ended in deadlock and chaos.
        The Canadian Dominion: A Chronicle of Our Northern Neighbor
        4
        The pioneers not only understood the American doctrine of self-government-theylived it.
        The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln
        5
        The question of self-government is closely associated with the question of self-support.
        Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bréquigny, Louis George...
        6
        The prevailing system and habit of local self-government made such organisation easy.
        Abraham Lincoln
        7
        For a time the installment of self-government thus granted satisfied the people.
        The Canadian Dominion: A Chronicle of Our Northern Neighbor
        8
        It was solved by the British panacea of self-government and equal rights.
        The Expansion of Europe; The Culmination of Modern History
        9
        Communal or local self-government lay at the very root of Greek nationality.
        A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878
        10
        It is only a question of the form that self-government shall take.
        Handbook of Home Rule: Being Articles on the Irish Question
        11
        This is an age of freedom and an age of local self-government.
        The Hindered Hand; or, The Reign of the Repressionist
        12
        To none of these were the institutions of full responsible self-government granted.
        The Expansion of Europe; The Culmination of Modern History
        13
        We reckon giving up the right of self-government one of those things.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 / A Mag...
        14
        From California to Cape Horn the inestimable system of self-government was established.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 / A Magazine ...
        15
        These men not only understood but appreciated the American doctrine of self-government.
        A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln / Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's...
        16
        The school for some time held to its first principles of self-government.
        Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 446 / Volume 18, New Series, J...
        Translations for self-government
        Catalan
        autogovern
        Self-government through the time