Home Rule Definition

noun
The administration of the internal affairs of a country, colony, district, city, etc., granted to the citizens who live in it by a superior governing authority or state; local self-government.
Webster's New World
The allocation of power to local governments over matters that might otherwise be regulated at the state level.
Webster's New World Law
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Home Rule Sentence Examples

  • Gladstone had for some time been convinced of the expediency of conceding Home Rule to Ireland in the event of the Irish constituencies giving unequivocal proof that they desired it.

  • The general election of 1885 showed that Ireland, outside Ulster, was practically unanimous for Home Rule.

  • Gladstone was implored to withdraw them, or substitute a resolution in favour of Irish autonomy; but he resolved to press at least the Home Rule Bill to a second reading.

  • Gladstone brought in his new Home Rule Bill on the 13th of February.

  • He brought the whole weight of his party to bear in favour, first of the Parliament bill, and afterwards of the Home Rule bill.

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