English

Noun

home rule ‎(uncountable)

1. The rule or government of an appendant or dependent country, as to some or all local and internal legislation, by means of a governing power vested in the people within the country itself, in contradistinction to a government established by the dominant country.

References

• home rule at home in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913