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Self-governing   /sˈɛlfgˈəvərnɪŋ/   Listen
Self-governing

adjective
1.
(of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces.  Synonyms: autonomous, independent, sovereign.  "A sovereign state"






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"Self-governing" Quotes from Famous Books



... difficult enterprise. How boys who could scarcely be got to behave quietly under the strictest schoolmasters could ever be brought to obey the rebuke of their equal and schoolfellow: how a heterogeneous pack of average schoolboys could organise themselves into a self-governing republic, these were problems of real and stupendous difficulty. The fines of a penny and of twopence, which were instituted at the first meeting, were found hopelessly incompetent to cope with the bursts of oblivious hilarity. Fordham in particular, whose constant breaches of order ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward

... big-wigs rule the roost, and the rest of us are only there to delude the British people into the idea that they're a self-governing community.' ...
— The Explorer • W. Somerset Maugham



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