Answer:
Self-government – that is, a people exercising all the necessary functions of power without interference of a higher authority that they can't control themselves -- is a long-standing tradition in the United States.
phrase is a syntax and grammar, a phrase is a group of words which act together as a grammatical unit.
Explanation:
D. To call up or draw forth
"At noon" is the prepositional phrase (it tells when to arrive, making it an adverbial preposition), and noon is a noun, so it is the object of the preposition.