self-elected

Such is the elation attendant on what a self-elected lady correspondent of mine from Scotland calls my "exciting career!"

In fact the government of the city was in the hold of a "close self-elected Corporation."

But the self-elected monitor was gone; and the unhappy youth again bowed his head, and wept upon the bosom of the dead.

They are more formally designated “masters of the bench,” are self-elected and unrestricted as to numbers.

The strongest and most daring are self-elected by virtue of individual prowess.