What is the role and authority of conscious reflective judgment in our rational self-governance, given it plays such a small part in deciding what to do and what to believe? In this paper, I defend a new model of rational self-governance according which whether an act or belief counts as an exercise of the agent's capacity for rational self-governance is trajectory-dependent. That is, it depends on what has happened before and, sometimes, what is going to happen next. This way of thinking about rational governance reflects an alternative way of thinking about the self that engages in self-governance as integrated dynamically and over time, rather than as integrated hierarchically through intention and belief submitting to judgment's authority.