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  • n  government of a political unit by its own people

  • These unchosen, unanticipated encounters are important, even crucial, for democratic self-government.
  • To him, self-government had to involve the empowerment of India's suffering multitudes in whose name the upper classes were clamoring for Home Rule.
  • He had opposed limited self-government for India becaus e he cherished, for equally romantic reasons, Britain's imperial history.
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  • Guest Column: Some TV news viewers better informed than others
    'Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable them to exer­cise oversight."— Thomas Jefferson A study conducted by the Univer­sity of Maryland found that Fox News viewers are more misinformed than even non-news watchers.
    June 11, 2013 - The Lafayette Daily Advertiser

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