self-government has definitions from the fields of politics,government
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[ noun ] (politics,government) government of a country by its own people

Used in print

(Douglas Ashford, "Elections in Morocco: Progress...)

However , the regionally differentiated results , which appear below in tables , are interesting evidence of the problems of developing self-government under even the most favorable circumstances .

King_Muhammad /5 , was known to be most sympathetic to the formation of local self-government and made the first firm promise of elections on May_Day , 1957 .

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