#autonomy

• Self-sufficient — Organized, administered, or maintained through one's own efforts; having achieved or maintaining a state of economic and logistical self-sufficiency, without depending on external aid, networks, or interventions. It applies to independent individuals, communities, or institutional structures.
• To self-govern — To rule, administer, or govern oneself autonomously through one's own laws, institutions, and internal decisions, without being subjected to external administrative control or foreign political domination. It applies to peoples, sovereign states, autonomous regions, or micro-communities fully exercising their self-determination.
• Self-governance — The act of self-governing and its result; a form of political and administrative organization whereby a collectivity or country exercises supreme authority over its own affairs, adopting laws and regulations without external management interference. It constitutes the central pillar of regional autonomy and national self-determination movements.
• Autonomous — Governing or directing itself, enjoying administrative, legal, or decision-making independence under its own set of rules; not dependent on an external authority to exercise its functions. In philosophy, it describes a subject capable of moral self-regulation and free will, whereas in engineering and technology, it denotes mechatronic or software systems capable of operating independently without direct human intervention.
• Autonomy — The right or capacity of a community, region, or individual to self-administer, self-govern, and make independent decisions within a set legal or moral framework; the state of structural independence of an entity relative to a central authority. In philosophy and ethics, it represents the full freedom of the human will to impose its own moral laws, acting on practical reason without external heteronomous constraints.
• Autonomism — A political doctrine, movement, or orientation that advocates for obtaining, extending, or maintaining the administrative, legislative, or cultural autonomy of a region or an ethnic community within a sovereign unitary state. This doctrinal current leans toward the decentralization of central power without necessarily pursuing complete territorial separation or total state independence, focusing instead on the recognition of specific structural rights.
• Autonomist — 1. A person who adheres to the principles of autonomism, advocating or fighting for the granting of autonomy to a region or a community. 2. Relating to autonomism, regarding the followers of this current or their actions; a group, party, or manifesto that promotes local self-governing within the borders of a sovereign state.
• Autonomist — The feminine form of autonomist; a woman who adheres to the principles of autonomism or actively campaigns for the administrative and cultural independence of a community. As an adjective, it describes a faction, doctrine, manifestation, or policy that promotes the right to local self-governing and decision-making decentralization within the borders of a sovereign state.