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home rule

governance of a colony, dependent country, locality, or region by its own citizens
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home rule

Summary

home rule ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (668 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • home rule is a type of statute[2].
  • home rule's Commons category is recorded as Self-governance[3].
  • home rule comprises home rule in the United States[4].
  • home rule comprises municipalism[5].
  • home rule's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Home rule in the United Kingdom[6].
  • home rule's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[7].
  • home rule's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[8].

Body

Definition and Type

home rule is a type of statute[2].

Use and Application

Components include home rule in the United States[4], in United States[9] and municipalism[5], a political ideology[10].

Why It Matters

home rule ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (668 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

Related Entities

statute

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [9] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) → home rule in the United States, municipalism
    Has parts → —
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007556192205171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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