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self-determination

DEFINITIONS OF: self-determination

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n determination of one's own fate or course of action without compulsion

Type of:
discretion, free will
the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies

n government of a political unit by its own people

Synonyms:
self-government, self-rule
Types:
sovereignty
government free from external control
local option
freedom of a local government to determine by popular vote the applicability of a controversial law in their jurisdiction
home rule
self-government in local matters by a city or county that is part of a national government
Type of:
autonomy, liberty
immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence
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