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  1. Self-governance

    Self-governance is an abstract concept that applies to several scales of organization. It may refer to personal conduct or family units but more commonly refers to larger scale activities, i.e., professions, industry bodies, religions and political units, up to and including autonomous regions and/or others within nation-states who enjoy some sovereign rights. It falls within the larger context of governance and principles such as consent of the governed, and may involve non-profit organizations and corporate governance. It can be used to describe a people or group being able to exercise all of the necessary functions of power without intervention from any authority which they cannot themselves alter. Self-rule is associated then in contexts where there is the end of colonial rule, absolute government or monarchy, as well as demands for autonomy by religious, ethnic or geographic regions which perceive themselves as being unrepresented or underrepresented in a national government. It is therefore a fundamental tenet of republican government and democracy as well as nationalism. Gandhi's term "swaraj" is a branch of this self-rule ideology. Another major proponent of self-rule when a government's actions are immoral is Thoreau.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of self-governance in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of self-governance in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of self-governance in a Sentence

  1. Vidar Helgesen:

    A key priority of REDD+ is self-governance and strengthening the involvement of indigenous communities in the forests.

  2. Ted Kennedy:

    He’s a bully, and I don’t like bullies, and that’s part of American tradition. I think in many ways he’s discredited the American experiment with self-governance.

  3. Adam Jed and Michael Marando:

    In our institutions of self-governance, committee hearings, courts of law ... truth still matters.

  4. Phil Bryant:

    Today, a federal court has usurped (the) right to self-governance and has mandated that states must comply with federal marriage standards -- standards that are out of step with the wishes of many in the United States and that are certainly out of step with the majority of Mississippians.

  5. Mike Duggan:

    Detroit is once again finally a city of full self-governance.


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