How to Use self-government in a Sentence

self-government

noun

• What’s more, a threat to self-government might be closer to home.
  — Colbert I. King, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
• Teachers talk a lot about virtues, such as courage and self-government.
  — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2023
• The work of self-government, Lippmann thought—even back then—asked far too much of its citizens.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 29 Apr. 2025
• The polluters have gained a high degree of control over the processes of self-government.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
• The contentious decision came at the height of Ireland’s campaign for self-government, or Home Rule.
  — Armani Syed, TIME, 31 July 2024
• Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.
  — Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
• Agencies are but creatures of law, and law is but a creature of the sovereign people’s right to self-government — a government of laws, and not of men.
  — The Editors, National Review, 28 June 2024
• Myanmar, in the midst of a crackdown by its military rulers, is sprouting new forms of local self-government.
  — Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 5 Oct. 2024
• Even then, Madison argued that the residents of this new district would not be denied their right of self-government.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 Mar. 2023
• Lincoln warned us that self-righteousness is an acute problem for self-government.
  — Janice Rogers Brown, National Review, 22 June 2024
• His mother created the nonpartisan iCivics as a way to teach kids about self-government.
  — Tim Dillon, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2023
• Having a member of the Supreme Court hobnobbing around and taking all kinds of presents from a billionaire megadonor goes against bedrock principles of self-government.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
• The Founders united in their quest for self-government but differed how to actually govern, and whether self-government could even last.
  — Hillel Italie and Michael Casey, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2025
• Our country should be placed speedily above the plane of confessing herself a failure at self-government.
  — Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 21 Feb. 2025
• The rule of law is pursued not simply to punish people but to create a system of self-government that is widely viewed as legitimate.
  — Fareed Zakaria, CNN, 2 Apr. 2023
• The demands of self-government call on all citizens to appreciate sound standards of ethical conduct — and then do our best to live by them.
  — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2023
• And even after Trump had tried to undermine the principle of self-government on which the United States was founded, his followers stayed loyal.
  — Heather Cox Richardson, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2023
• The fundamental problem with the Maine and Colorado decisions is that they are mistaken as a matter of law — and not in a merely technical way, but in one that strikes at the heart of self-government.
  — The Editors, National Review, 30 Dec. 2023
• As Charlie Cooke has written, Americans are capable of self-government and can evaluate the risks of different types of stoves themselves.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 7 Mar. 2023
• In 2008, a majority of Greenlanders voted for further home rule, to, in essence, continue a process towards sovereignty and self-government.
  — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 10 Feb. 2025
• Current limitations to ‘We the People’ The government has recognized that citizens over the age of 18 have a right to participate in self-government.
  — Joseph Jones, The Conversation, 30 June 2023
• On both sides of the political aisle, people of good conscience believe deeply in the enduring ideas on which this nation was founded — the rights of self-government, personal freedom and liberty.
  — Dj Rosenthal, Baltimore Sun, 15 July 2024
• The fundamental problem with the decisions by Maine and Colorado is a legal misunderstanding that challenges the core of self-government.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 5 Jan. 2024
• In doing so, Americans claimed for themselves the right to self-government and established themselves as the ultimate authority and power.
  — Nisha Whitehead, Orange County Register, 16 Mar. 2025
• Only 33 words and unseen by others until long after his assassination, Lincoln’s pithy memo conveyed his full range of thought on self-government.
  — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 22 Feb. 2024
• Britain responded with more acts that ended self-government in Massachusetts.
  — Eileen Ogintz, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2023
• Pence presents a particularly stark contrast with Florida governor Ron DeSantis on how to strike the balance between state self-government and the private free-speech rights of business.
  — The Editors, National Review, 7 June 2023
• The growing reputation of the studium, which attracted scholars from across Europe, helped the village of Bologna become a commune with powers of municipal self-government.
  — Bradford Vivian / Made By History, TIME, 16 Aug. 2024
• This struck the British as unreasonable, but being unreasonable in devotion to liberty and self-government turns out to be an excellent basis upon which to found a nation.
  — The Editors, National Review, 16 Dec. 2023
• Kropotkin tells us that mutual aid flourishes where egalitarianism and self-government prevail, but that it can be found in even the most repressive conditions.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023