This is the right of people to choose their own form of government. This was a key idea of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points to end World War I and he tried, unsuccessfully, to get it into the Treaty of Versailles. Britain and France refused to include it because this idea would mean that they would have to give up their colonies, because the people they controlled wanted to be free and have their own government.

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This is the right of people to choose their own form of government. This was a key idea of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points to end World War I and he tried, unsuccessfully, to get it into the Treaty of Versailles. Britain and France refused to include it because this idea would mean that they would have to give up their colonies, because the people they controlled wanted to be free and have their own government.