That is the best aspect of the Enlightenment tradition, to form a polity that encourages self-government, self-reliance, autonomy.

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The beauty of a public charter school lies in its great autonomy and self-determination -- this is what drew me to charter schools in the first place.

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They include deep trust, autonomy and self-regulation, participation in public policy, funding for what we value in both patient care and medical research in addition to many personal rewards.

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The new proposed constitution recognizes the pre-colonial right of the indigenous people to their territory, to autonomy and to self-rule.

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The single life is inherently self-interested: it calls for vigilance on matters of self-preservation both large (financial autonomy) and small (dish detergent), and, in many cases, it frees the solitary from the sorts of daily interaction that help craft a sense of shared responsibility.

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Catalonia's autonomy statute gives the regional authority - the Generalitat - broad powers of self-government within Spain, especially on matters such as culture, education, health, transport, public safety and commerce.

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But before that can happen, the government will have to calculate what kind of self-rule it can offer Aceh, and whether this would differ from the autonomy options being considered for other provinces.

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Most studies instead point to the importance of more general traits, like autonomy or a sense of competence (see, for example, the voluminous research literature on Self-Determination Theory for more on such findings).

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