Rather than being pursued to deepen freedom and enrich the practice of self-government, European integration has been driven by "economism", the language of economics and the utilitarian philosophy that underpins it.
It must inculcate the habits and manners of civility as values in themselves conducive to happiness and as indispensable to the practice of self-government in the community and the nation.
Their physical strength would be more adequate to foreign danger, and the practice of self-government, aided by the light of experience, could not fail to produce an effect equally salutary on all those questions connected with the internal organization.
Seeking to give new life to the state from within, Stein hoped that the practice of self-government would generate "civic-mindedness" (Bürgersinn) and "community spirit" (Gemeingeist) in the populace, so that they would adopt the state's interests as their own.
In addition, NU has sent delegations to get a first-hand look at Wisconsin's administrative practices, student self-government, and system of shared governance.
Domestic policies and domestic legal rules largely determine the legal status of cities, and these rules have a major influence on both the experience of city life and the practice of local self-government.
"Their handiwork," the exhibition states, "was the world's first document putting in practice the principles of self-government" -- in other words, the basis for Connecticut's claim to the title "Constitution State," an assertion some scholars find debatable.
US technical assistance can help them develop best practices to nurture stable self-government.
Southerners, one article reasoned, desired only "that self-government which Englishmen practice themselves and usually commend in others".
