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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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6 words match “SELF-GOVERNMENT”

SELF-GOVERNMENT n. 2 definitions
il body; also, the state of being so governed; democratic government; democracy. It is to self-government, the great principle of popular representation and administration, -- the system that lets in all to participate in the councels that are to assign the good or evil to all, -- that we may owe what we are and what w…
AUTONOMIC a.
Having the power of self-government; autonomous. Hickok.
AUTONOMY n.
The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state.
COMMUNE n.
Absolute municipal self-government. The Commune of Paris, or The Commune (a) The government established in Paris (1792-94) by a usurpation of supreme power on the part of representatives chosen by the communes; the period of its continuance is known as the "Reign of Terror." (b) The revolutionary government, modeled on…
INDEPENDENT n.
One who believes that an organized Christian church is complete in itself, competent to self-government, and independent of all ecclesiastical authority.
PARCEL n.
s of the white of an egg. Arbuthnot. The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government. J. A. Symonds.