Some associations merit autonomy so their members can develop their own institutions.

Evidence

The Living Tree Policy, finally expresses “the value of autonomy” in leaving associations, such as universities, to work out their own problems and pursue their own course of institutional development. Profes- “Such are the four policies which may influence the exercise of jurisdiction over associations. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 5081

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names Chafee’s fourth policy — institutional autonomy as a reason against judicial intervention.
• XREF: Connects to how universities and professional bodies self-regulate; touches legal process questions of who owns interpretive authority over a community’s own rules. — connects to: Political, legal, cultural, and ideological levels hold relative autonomy within a social formation.; Capital-backed organizations define membership and authority, constituting autonomous power — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 787; Individual autonomy presupposes shared norms, accountability, and public trust. — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 72 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Society operates as a complex formation structured in dominance with relative institutional autonomy #expands (0.85)
• Political, legal, cultural, and ideological levels hold relative autonomy within a social formation. #expands (0.80)
• A society develops only when its members hold their own power of decision. #corroborates (0.80) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 510
• Superstructures may require relative autonomy to function at advanced capitalist stages. #expands (0.80)
• Capital-backed organizations define membership and authority, constituting autonomous power #qualifies (0.75) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 787
• Autonomy as a secular-liberal ideal is class-differentiated and state-regulated #qualifies (0.75)
• Individual autonomy presupposes shared norms, accountability, and public trust. #qualifies (0.72) — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 72
• Private and public autonomy must mutually enable each other in a self-stabilizing cycle #expands (0.72) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 86
• Peasant political autonomy varies inversely with landowner organized strength #exemplifies (0.70) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 526