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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 (4,393 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].
  • home rule's P14901 is recorded as home-rule[9].

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[10] and municipalism[5], a political ideology[11].

Why It Matters

home rule ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,393 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

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.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [10] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → home-rule
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: home-rule, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289932948|home rule (#289932948)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix"
  2. 17d ago · Tymewalk · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14901 → home-rule
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/55023|batch #55023]]: Encyclopedia of Alabama update - add values for P14901 based on existing values of P6010"
  3. 18w 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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