0 the act of a country, a part of a country, or a nation choosing its own government and controlling its own activities
More theorizing went into the problem of who was fit for manual labor than how to grant self-rule.
Citizenship is central to the democratic principle of self-rule, and the distinction between citizens and subjects.
Although antidespotic in its preference for self-rule from the bottom-up, this governing tradition was hardly weak or noninterventionist.
There were many disagreements, but these tended to be over the details rather than the broader notion of demands for cultural self-rule.
Moreover, decentralisation or self-rule in response to a separatist threat is likely to be part of a package of reforms.
If there is a politics in these works, it is a politics of self-rule, however draconian or despotic.
The work divulged the strengths of and possibilities for individual and collective self-rule.
Nationalist movements that demand autonomy are concerned more with the self-rule of a community than a territory.
