home rule

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Home-rule communities have broad powers to operate without legislative oversight.

From Washington Times • Feb. 5, 2020

Home-rule for Ireland would be a millennium in comparison.

From Pragmatism by James, William

Home-rule, no doubt, is a nuisance,—and especially a nuisance because the professors of the doctrine do not at all believe it themselves.

From Autobiography of Anthony Trollope by Trollope, Anthony