self-government
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America’s experiment in self-government has always depended on wisdom and self-control.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Those frustrations built until a 2009 self-government act, approved by three-quarters of Greenland voters, which charted a path for independence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
The opposing argument begins with a simple intuition: In a society defined by self-government, as America is, there is no such thing as citizenship without consent.
From Salon • Dec. 9, 2025
Her grandfather signed a petition against Irish self-government in 1912, when the whole island was still part of the UK.
From BBC • Sep. 14, 2025
Important historically, these were the free people encountered by France and Britain—personifications of democratic self-government so vivid that some historians and activists have argued that the Great Law of Peace directly inspired the U.S.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing self-government
The American Revolution - Introductory
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History of India - Introductory
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