Self Elective

Objection was taken to making the Governors a self-elective body, and the necessity of making it essential that the Governors or a majority of them should be of the Protestant faith was also insisted on. ❋ Cyrus MacMillan (1916)

In the beetle, however, conscious determination is merged into intelligent ideation, for its actions in the premises are self-elective and selective. ❋ James Weir (1881)

The Town Councils were self-elective -- hotbeds of corruption; and the members of these Town Councils were intrusted with the power of returning the Members for the boroughs. ❋ James Wilson Hyde (1879)

On both sides of their independence, as trustees of the property which they had created and gifted to the Society on this condition, and as a self-supporting, self-elective brotherhood, it became necessary, for the unbroken peace of the mission and the success of their work, that they should vindicate their moral and legal position. ❋ George Smith (1876)

Mamlouks took matters into their own hands, and became a self-elective body, or sort of large corporation. ❋ John Henry Newman (1845)

_Conservative Senate_, composed of eighty members, self-elective, had the right of appointing the members of the Corps Législatif, the Tribuneship, and the Court of Cassation. ❋ Unknown (1830)

The violent Aristocrats would have wished to preserve all the powers of government in the hands of the Regents, and that these should remain self-elective: but choosing to receive a modification of these powers from the Stadtholder, rather than from the people, they threw themselves into his scale. ❋ Thomas Jefferson (1784)

The violent Aristocrats would have wished to preserve all the powers of government in the hands of the Regents, and that these should remain self-elective; but choosing to receive a modification of these powers from the Stadtholder, rather than from the people, they threw themselves into his scale. ❋ Thomas Jefferson (1784)

a dominant, self-elective assembly, superior to the Pope, and that one-half of the revenues of the Papacy should be diverted into the pockets of the cardinals. ❋ Unknown (1879)