self-government : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: self-government	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for self-government
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
self-government n government of a political unit by its own people [syn: self-government, self-determination, self-rule]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Self-government \Self`-gov"ern*ment\, n. 1. The act of governing one's self, or the state of being governed by one's self; self-control; self-command. 2. Hence, government of a community, state, or nation by the joint action of the mass of people constituting such a civil 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 we hope to be. --D. Webster.