self-government

How To Use self-government In A Sentence

• He knew that our experiment in self-government could fail if he had a serious lapse of judgment.
• This vision of cooperative self-government often produced republicanism and even democracy comparable to classical Greek democracy.
• The purpose of their constitutions is to contract radically the sphere of self-government - of democratic politics.
• As for the colonies in Asia and Africa, authoritarian paternalism - not self-government - was the order of the day.
• The guildsman, like the earlier democrat therefore, looks about him for an environment in which this ideal of self-government can be realized. Public Opinion
• New Zealand finally emerged as an imperial power in its own right after gaining self-government from Britain at the turn of the century.
• The following year, in one of its many articles calling for an end to Italian immigration, the Saturday Evening Post argued that because southern Italians were part African, they were “incapable of self-government and totally devoid of initiative and creative ability.” A Renegade History of the United States
• The Founders, so the liberal theory runs, devised the complicated checks and balances of the Constitution in order to overcome the traditional fate of republican self-government.
• In 1864, a system of limited local self-government was introduced and the judicial system was partially westernized.
• Whatever may be the responsibility of those nations whose executives possess the power of declaring war and of adopting other coercive remedies without the intervention of the legislative department, for the language held by the Executive in addressing that department, it is obvious that under the Constitution of the United States, which gives to the Executive no such powers, but vests them exclusively in the Legislature, whilst at the same time it imposes on the Executive the duty of laying before the Legislature the state of the nation, with such recommendations as he may deem proper, no such responsibility can be admitted without impairing that freedom of intercommunication which is essential to the system and without surrendering in this important particular the right of self-government. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 1: Andrew Jackson (Second Term)