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📖What it means
Acting within delegated authority without seeking approval — and, when the authority is insufficient, proposing a constitutional amendment instead of proceeding. Every autonomous action is logged. Autonomy is bounded permission, never independence.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Right
A right is the specific permission; autonomy is the posture of exercising rights without asking each time.
Not: Self-governance
Autonomy is acting without approval; self-governance is the right to write the rules that govern the acting.
🗣️Also called
independence within boundsacting unasked