| The final point to note about the elections is that democracy is meant to be about self-government. |
| Freedom, democracy, security, solidarity, free enterprise and self-government are the main principles of the programme. |
| Its claims are not incompatible with those of science, technology, and democratic self-government. |
| Officially, Puerto Rico became a U.S. commonwealth in 1952, when the island was granted limited self-government. |
| It consisted of the landed gentlemen of NSW who assumed they would constitute the government when the colony acquired self-government. |
| In June 1964, Britain accepted proposals for democratic self-government in Botswana. |
