What is Self Determination?

26/03/2013 23:58

Self Determination is the right to make decisions of ones own affairs and the right to a Self Governance or Self Govern.  The Black Laws Dictionary explains that Self Determination is:-

“The freedom of the nation has its correlate in the sovereignty of the nation. Political sovereignty is the assertion of the self-determinate will of the organic people, and in this there is the manifestation of its freedom. It is in and through the determination of its sovereignty that the order of the nation is constituted and maintained.” (Black Laws Dictionary 2nd Edition)


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