Self-determination is the right of a people to choose their own government. Demand self-determination.
It is in the United Nations charter and is nowhere defined as to who counts as a people. Self-determination has founded countries and started wars using exactly the same argument.
1nounself-determinationThe right of a people to choose their own government.
“The referendum was framed entirely as self-determination.”
self-determination is a right.
Middle English
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English, today
self-determination
From self- + determination. self comes from Middle English self. From Middle English salve, self, silf, from Old English self, seolf, sylf, from Proto-Germanic selbaz, from Proto-Indo-European selbʰ- (“one's own”). 2
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