personal rule
Noun
Meaning
personal rule (countable and uncountable, plural personal rules)
The rule of a monarch characterized by a lack of consultation with the parliamentary body of the state.
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Examples
For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.
He accustomed the people to the fact that one man was the foremost in all things, and threw the lax and lame administration of the senatorial college into the shade by the vigour and dexterity of his personal rule. ]].
I make it a personal rule never to do anything that I don't really care about. It is surprising how much this cuts out.