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.
“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.
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;