self-government

Increasing the scope or range of those conflicts will strip more nations (including the US) of self-government.

Who decides in which situations those not-getting-it-majority-states should be denied their right to self-government and forced to adopt ways they oppose?

He was describing, rather, effective self-government in the service of security as the very liberty it would be contemptible to trade.

At the heart of all this is how England managed to keep its Anglo-Saxon self-government traditions even after the continental Norman invasion and takeover.

To mention but a few: * The Statute of Autonomy of 2006 was the main law for self-government that the Catalan Parliament passed and that was approved in referendum.

> Who decides in which situations those not-getting-it-majority-states should be denied their right to self-government and forced to adopt ways they oppose?

>We are still, despite our shortcomings, the most successful experiment in self-government in history.

We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with the question whether any form of democratic self-government, anywhere, is consistent with the kind of massive, pervasive, surveillance into which the Unites States government has led not only us but the world.

Or where they get their definition of "self-government".

Alexis de Toqueville in "Democracy in America" found the concern of the commoner for the welfare of the nation to be a key to the success of the American experiment of self-government under law.

“You can't solve social problems with software.” – Marcus Ranum We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with the question whether any form of democratic self-government, anywhere, is consistent with the kind of massive, pervasive, surveillance into which the Unites States government has led not only us but the world.