How to Use self-government in a Sentence

self-government

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  • Teachers talk a lot about virtues, such as courage and self-government.
    — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The polluters have gained a high degree of control over the processes of self-government.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Agencies are but creatures of law, and law is but a creature of the sovereign people’s right to self-government — a government of laws, and not of men.
    — The Editors, National Review, 28 June 2024
  • Even then, Madison argued that the residents of this new district would not be denied their right of self-government.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Lincoln warned us that self-righteousness is an acute problem for self-government.
    — Janice Rogers Brown, National Review, 22 June 2024
  • His mother created the nonpartisan iCivics as a way to teach kids about self-government.
    — Tim Dillon, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Having a member of the Supreme Court hobnobbing around and taking all kinds of presents from a billionaire megadonor goes against bedrock principles of self-government.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The rule of law is pursued not simply to punish people but to create a system of self-government that is widely viewed as legitimate.
    — Fareed Zakaria, CNN, 2 Apr. 2023
  • The demands of self-government call on all citizens to appreciate sound standards of ethical conduct — and then do our best to live by them.
    — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2023
  • And even after Trump had tried to undermine the principle of self-government on which the United States was founded, his followers stayed loyal.
    — Heather Cox Richardson, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The fundamental problem with the Maine and Colorado decisions is that they are mistaken as a matter of law — and not in a merely technical way, but in one that strikes at the heart of self-government.
    — The Editors, National Review, 30 Dec. 2023
  • As Charlie Cooke has written, Americans are capable of self-government and can evaluate the risks of different types of stoves themselves.
    — Dominic Pino, National Review, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Current limitations to ‘We the People’ The government has recognized that citizens over the age of 18 have a right to participate in self-government.
    — Joseph Jones, The Conversation, 30 June 2023
  • On both sides of the political aisle, people of good conscience believe deeply in the enduring ideas on which this nation was founded — the rights of self-government, personal freedom and liberty.
    — Dj Rosenthal, Baltimore Sun, 15 July 2024
  • The fundamental problem with the decisions by Maine and Colorado is a legal misunderstanding that challenges the core of self-government.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Only 33 words and unseen by others until long after his assassination, Lincoln’s pithy memo conveyed his full range of thought on self-government.
    — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Britain responded with more acts that ended self-government in Massachusetts.
    — Eileen Ogintz, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2023
  • Pence presents a particularly stark contrast with Florida governor Ron DeSantis on how to strike the balance between state self-government and the private free-speech rights of business.
    — The Editors, National Review, 7 June 2023
  • This struck the British as unreasonable, but being unreasonable in devotion to liberty and self-government turns out to be an excellent basis upon which to found a nation.
    — The Editors, National Review, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Kropotkin tells us that mutual aid flourishes where egalitarianism and self-government prevail, but that it can be found in even the most repressive conditions.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The incident occurred during a contentious period of Scottish nationalism, in which many Scots expressed their desire for self-government.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 May 2023
  • Our right of local self-government is critically impaired, and our legislature in Austin continues to cede control to Washington D.C.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
  • But whatever returns in November, the return of civic hope—and with it, the future of our democracy—depends on the return of the citizen: the conceptual and practical restoration of everyday Americans to the center of self-government.
    — Trygve Throntveit and Harry Boyte, TIME, 13 June 2024
  • In our political system, all good government begins with self-government.
    — Marian Fry, Baltimore Sun, 11 May 2024
  • Each was a world-historical experiment in building collective self-government; politics, that is, without a boss.
    — Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
  • China continues to threaten Taiwan and its democratic self-government, while committing genocide against its own people and eradicating democracy and human rights in Hong Kong.
    — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
  • Before this month, only three disapproval resolutions had ever succeeded in the 50-year history of D.C.'s limited self-government.
    — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Sliding downhill Whether shining as a beacon or conquering and preaching as a crusader, U.S. leaders largely agreed that America’s self-government — its democracy — was exceptional.
    — Andreas Kluth, The Mercury News, 25 June 2024
  • The opening-up of 1842, forced by victorious Western powers, brought one idea that, along with Christianity, women’s rights, and self-government, Chinese had never been exposed to: the classical-liberal argument for market liberalization.
    — Evan Osborne, National Review, 9 Apr. 2024
  • And thanks to structural concepts like federalism, differences of opinion on matters of fundamental importance such as equality are not only encouraged but essential to popular self-government.
    — Robert L. Tsai / Made By History, TIME, 28 June 2024

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