Self-determination

Definitions: Self-determination

Self-determination

Noun

1. Government of a country by its own people.

2. Determination of one's own fate or course of action without compulsion.

Date "self-determination" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Self-determination

Domain	Definitions
Labor	Free choice of one's own actions or states at work. Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Self-determination

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Self-determination is a principle in international law that a people ought to be able to determine their own governmental forms and structure free from outside influence. This principle was developed by Woodrow Wilson and was important in the Treaty of Versailles and decolonization.

There is tension between the concept of self-determination and that of territorial integrity. This conflict has been resolved in practice by defining the notion of "people" entitled to self-determination as persons living in a particular nation-state rather than persons sharing a common culture or language. Hence, self-determination as it is understood in the early 21st century does not generally promote the political aspirations of oppressed ethnic minorities unless the state.

The United Nations Declaration on Human rights in 1970 committed the idea of the right for self-determination to the body of international protocol. In essence, all people reserve the right to seek self-determination to address a lack of proper representation or oppression from any given government.

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Self-determination is the concept in international that the people within a state ought to have the power to determine their political status independent of an outside power.

The concept of self-determination was first invoke in the aftermath of World War I in drawing the boundaries of Eastern Europe, although many of the ideas with self-determination can be found in earlier documents such as the Declaration of Independence of the United States.

At the ratification of the UN Charter in 1951, the signatories introduced the right of all people to self determination into the framework of international law and diplomacy.

The purpose of the self determination clause was to allow the former colonies that existed before WWII to have a say in their future. However, after decolonization the right to self-determination became understood to apply only to states and not to peoples, and to be circumscribed by the principles of territorial integrity and noninterference in internal affairs. Many of the newly independent former colonies faced seccessionist and irredentist movements and therefore there was an international consensus that self-determiniation did not apply to these movements.

The right to self-determination has been used in recent decades by people all over the world. In most cases there is an ethnic or religious minority seeking independence from a majority to escape prejudice or persecution.

The Constitution of the Soviet Union acknowledged this right for its republics, but it wasn't applied in practice until the perestroika, when it led to the breakup of the Soviet Union

Synonyms: Self-determination

Synonyms: self-government (n), self-rule (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Self-determination

English words defined with "self-determination": Self-determining. (references)

Specialty definitions using "self-determination": Bureau of Indian Affairs ♦ participatory rural appraisal. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Self-determination

Domain	Title
Books	Education and the American Indian: The Road to Self-Determination Since 1928 (reference) Mother Goose Meets a Woman Called Wisdom: A Short Course in the Art of Self-Determination (reference) Politics of Self-Determination (Self-Mastery Series) (reference) Self-Determination and National Minorities (Oxford Monographs in International Law) (reference) Self-Determination of Peoples : A Legal Reappraisal (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Self-determination

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	Support self-determination : vote Socialist Workers, 1970.Credit: Library of Congress.		National week of solidarity with the people of Nicaragua, April 22-28 : self-determination for the people of Nicaragua.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Self-determination

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		In particular, Mexico champions the principles of non-intervention and self-determination. (references)
Civil Liberties	Equatorial Guinea	The law prohibits ethnic political parties, and the Bubi-dominated Movement for Self-determination of Bioko (MIAB) was banned. (references)
	Yemen	He again was called in for questioning in April 2000 following publication in al-Ayyam of a letter of support for Ba Sharahil in his dispute with the Director of Aden Security from the secessionist Movement of Self-Determination for South Arabia (HATAM). (references)
Economic History	Sudan	In February 1953, the United Kingdom and Egypt concluded an agreement providing for Sudanese self-government and self-determination. (references)
Indigenous People	Bolivia	Indigenous groups have taken advantage of the Popular Participation Law to form municipalities that offer them greater opportunities for self-determination. (references)
	Colombia	The Ministry of Interior, through the office of indigenous affairs, is responsible for protecting the territorial, cultural, and self-determination rights of indigenous people. (references)
Political Economy	Sudan	The southern ethnic groups fighting the civil war (largely followers of traditional indigenous religions or Christians) total approximately 6 million and seek independence, or some form of regional self-determination, from the north. (references)
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Speeches: Self-determination

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	A great unfinished task is the reunification of Germany through self-determination.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for those inalienable rights that make for human dignity and progress.
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Usage Frequency: Self-determination

"Self-determination" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.21% of the time. "Self-determination" is used about 182 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	91.21%	166	24,220
Adjective (general or positive)	4.95%	9	117,287
Noun (proper)	3.3%	6	143,867
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	0.55%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	182	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Self-determination

Expression using "self-determination": Patient Self-Determination Act. Additional references.
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Modern Translations: Self-determination

Language		Translations for "self-determination"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vetëvendosje. (various references)

Arabic		‏حق تقرير المصير, ‏حرية الإرادة, ‏تقرير المصير. (various references)

Bulgarian		свобода на волята (freewill), самоопределение. (various references)

Chinese		自己决定. (various references)

Czech		sebeurèení. (various references)

Danish		selvbestemmelse. (various references)

Dutch		zelfbeschikking. (various references)

Finnish		määräysvalta. (various references)

French		autodétermination. (various references)

German		Selbstbestimmung (self determination). (various references)

Greek		αυτοπροσδιορισμός, αυτοδιάθεση (self determination). (various references)

Hungarian		önállóság (autonomy, self sufficiency, separateness). (various references)

Italian		autodeterminazione. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		自決 (resignation, suicide). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		じけつ (resignation, suicide). (various references)

Korean		자결. (various references)

Manx		seyrsnys (autonomy, freedom, immunity, independence, inexpensiveness, latitude, liberty), hene-reill (autonomy), hene-reddey. (various references)

Pig Latin		elf-determinationsay

Portuguese		autodeterminação. (various references)

Romanian		autodeterminare. (various references)

Russian		самоопределение. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		samoopredeljenje. (various references)

Spanish		autodeterminación. (various references)

Swedish		självbestämmande (freedom). (various references)

Turkish		otonomi (autonomy), özgür irade (freewill), özerklik (autarchy, autarky, autonomy, home rule, self-government). (various references)

Ukranian		самостійність (independence), самовизначення. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự tự quyết quyền tự quyết. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Self-determination

Misspellings
	"Self-determination" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: selfdetermination. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Self-determination

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-f-i-i-l-m-n-n-o-r-s-t-t"
	-3 letters: defenestration, determinations.
	-4 letters: antimodernist, determination, dilatometries, fermentations, indeterminate, intermediates, nonesterified, radioelements, reinfestation, sedimentation.
	-5 letters: delineations, densitometer, determinants, detrainments, detrimentals, dilatometers, disinterment, disorientate, endometritis, fenestration, fermentation, frontalities, intermediate, internalised, nonliterates, radioelement, reenlistment, reinflations, remediations, semiliterate, terminations.
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