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Synonyms for self-government
self-gov·ern·ment
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Princeton's WordNet
self-government, self-determination, self-rulenoun
government of a political unit by its own people
Synonyms:
self-rule, self-determination
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Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
self-governmentnoun
Synonyms:
self-control, democracy, autonomyAntonyms:
subjection, heteronomy, abandon, subordination
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "self-government":
autonomy, selfgovernment, self-governance, self-rule, self-governing, autonomous, self-administration, self-reliance, self-, self-controlled, self-administering, self-sufficiency, self-management, self-ruled, self-determination, non-self-governing, self, independence
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#697 | self | |
#4703 | independence | |
#11855 | autonomous | |
#13990 | autonomy |
How to use self-government in a sentence?
The Vice President is doubling down while the Press Secretary is trying to spin it. This isn’t rocket science: public officials – Republicans and Democrats – should defend public trust in self-government.
This is a question between Article I and Article II -- the President is not permitted to write law. Only Congress is, the House will make that very, very clear and we will do so as an institution on behalf of the American people, on behalf of representative self-government.
This is the issue of this election : whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.
We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.
I can’t say I’m surprised because people want self-government, they want sovereignty, they want self-determination, and I can’t say that I would feel differently if I were a citizen of Great Britain when you have people from other countries regulating your country, writing your laws, i can clearly relate to the thinking behind the Brexit vote.
Translations for self-government
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- hunanlywodraethWelsh
- SelbstverwaltungGerman
- gobierno autónomoSpanish
- moderationemLatin
- savivaldaLithuanian
- zelfbestuurDutch
- governo autônomoPortuguese
- självstyre, autonomiSwedish
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