The capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision.
The right or condition of self-government; freedom to act or function independently.
The capacity of a system to make a decision about its actions without the involvement of another system or operator.
A self-governing country or region.
The status of a church whose highest-ranking bishop is appointed by the patriarch of the mother church, but which is self-governing in all other respects. Compare autocephaly.
The right to express an opinion in public without being restrained or censored.
Expressions that are or should be allowed in some moral or legal context.