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 civic case asks them to prepare students for self-government.
  — Ray Ravaglia, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
• At smaller scales, new places have made advances in self-government.
  — Joe Mathews, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2025
• For them, local self-government has become a fortress, and the drawbridge is up.
  — JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
• Lincoln warned us that self-righteousness is an acute problem for self-government.
  — Janice Rogers Brown, National Review, 22 June 2024
• 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
• 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
• The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the US Constitution.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 26 June 2026
• In 1776, few people believed this new version of self-government would last.
  — John Stossel, Oc Register, 30 May 2026
• Religious freedom and freedom of speech make up the engine of self-government and form a bulwark against tyranny.
  — Kristen Waggoner, National Review, 5 July 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
• 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
• 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
• His mother created the nonpartisan iCivics as a way to teach kids about self-government.
  — Tim Dillon, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2023
• 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
• For most of history, corruption has been known as the central, ongoing challenge of self-government.
  — Zephyr Teachout, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 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
• The contentious decision came at the height of Ireland’s campaign for self-government, or Home Rule.
  — Armani Syed, TIME, 31 July 2024
• 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
• Because as our founders knew so well, human nature recoils all too often at the inconveniences and frustrations of self-government.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2025
• Britain responded with more acts that ended self-government in Massachusetts.
  — Eileen Ogintz, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2023
• In our political system, all good government begins with self-government.
  — Marian Fry, Baltimore Sun, 11 May 2024
• Composed of neighbors, parents, and community members, school boards are modern-day town halls where self-government is not just discussed but enacted.
  — Scott Levy, Time, 8 Oct. 2025
• This kind of love upholds the right of every individual to self-government, reason, and conscience, qualities our founder extolled.
  — Christa Case Bryant, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2025
• Those creedal ideals include liberty, equality, laissez-faire and limited self-government.
  — Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Outrage fades, the unthinkable becomes routine, and the guardrails that protect self-government quietly disappear.
  — Aron Solomon september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025