Self-Government
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
self-government · right of self-government
in the texts
Archidamus
The autonomy hoped for by revolting states but replaced by misrule.
instead of securing self-government, they have been plunged into misgovernment of many terrible kinds;
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The natural right of a people to govern themselves, treated as the genuine principle underlying American constitutional design.
But the natural right of self-government, and the consequent rights of dividing and limiting power, might have slept forever in theory, except for the American revolution;
“It is hoped for the honour of human nature, that the result will prove the fallacy of those theories, which suppose that mankind are incapable of self-government.