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Lincoln described self-government as "government of the people, by the people, for the people" in his Gettysburg Address. He believed that power should ultimately reside with the citizens, who have the right to participate in the decision-making process and shape their own destiny through democratic means.
"I trust I understand and truly estimate the right of self-government. My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me. I extend the principle to communities of men as well as to individuals." Those are the words he used.
It has cost many lives to move Iraq into its current self-government mode.
The ideas of self government originally came from England.
They were democratic and had a self-government.