self-rule

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The country's constitution states that "each ethnicity has the right to use and develop their own language" and "have the right to self-rule".

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

"The issue of self-rule is one of the major problems between the two sides."

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

“I have no doubt in my mind,” he wrote, “that Burma cannot form part of India under Swaraj,” or self-rule.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

As patriots readied for battle and loyalists clung to the British crown, Thomas Paine published “Common Sense,” a fiercely persuasive pamphlet that united Colonists to fight against monarchy in the name of self-rule.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2025

They have ceased to consider themselves unfit for self-rule: they no longer think of calling in from other worlds a different order of beings to govern them.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various