0 the government of a country or part of a country by its own citizens. -- การปกครองตนเอง
Although its constitution did not feature "home rule" provisions, the state's eighty-two counties retained significant formal authority and informal power relative to state-level actors and institutions.
With home rule, the situation changed somewhat.
As an unfulfilled possibility, home rule has provoked much historical debate.
While home rule changed the legislative context, it did not change the tendency of legislatures to defer to local delegates on special bills.
Moreover, home rule often did not restrict the state's ability to interfere with the ever-important sphere of local taxation.
This common wisdom has dissenters; scholars of intergovernmental relations have continued to focus on issues of home rule, centering their attention on problems of apportionment.
With home rule, conflict broadened, embracing interests outside of the city.
Indeed, these home rule resolutions enjoyed the unique distinction of being the only ones unanimously passed at the notoriously fractious conference.
