The final point to note about the elections is that democracy is meant to be about self-government. |
It consisted of the landed gentlemen of NSW who assumed they would constitute the government when the colony acquired self-government. |
Officially, Puerto Rico became a U.S. commonwealth in 1952, when the island was granted limited self-government. |
The key is not so much to reduce group representation in federal bodies as it is to balance group representation with self-government. |
He demanded responsible parliamentary government, local self-government and an independent judiciary. |
It started well, but devolution quickly became an end in itself rather than a start of a process of democratisation and self-government. |