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  2. Nation state - Wikipedia

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    A nation-state is a political unit where the state, a centralized political organization ruling over a population within a territory, and the nation, ...

  3. Nation - Wikipedia

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    A nation is a large type of social organization where a collective identity, a national identity, has emerged from a combination of shared features across a given population, such as language, history, ethnicity, culture, territory or society. Some nations are constructed around ethnicity (see ethnic nationalism) while others are bound by ...

  4. Sovereign state - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. A sovereign state is a state that has the highest authority over a territory. [1] International law defines sovereign states as having a permanent population, defined territory, a government not under another, and the capacity to interact with other states. [2] It is commonly understood that a sovereign state is independent. [3]

  5. Sovereignty - Wikipedia

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    Nation-states. A community of people who claim the right of self-determination based on a common ethnicity, history and culture might seek to establish sovereignty over a region, thus creating a nation-state. Such nations are sometimes recognised as autonomous areas rather than as fully sovereign, independent states. Federations

  6. What Is a Nation? - Wikipedia

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    A nation is a soul, a spiritual principle. Two things which, properly speaking, are really one and the same constitute this soul, this spiritual principle. One is the past, the other is the present. One is the possession in common of a rich legacy of memories; the other is present consent, the desire to live together, the desire to continue to ...

  7. State (polity) - Wikipedia

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    Neuberger offers a slightly different definition of the state with respect to the nation: the state is "a primordial, essential, and permanent expression of the genius of a specific [nation]." The definition of a state is also dependent on how and why they form.

  8. Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People

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    The State of Israel is the national home of the Jewish people, in which it fulfills its natural, cultural, religious, and historical right to self-determination . C. The right to exercise national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people. 2 — Symbols of the State. A.

  9. Civilization state - Wikipedia

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    e. A civilization state, or civilizational state, [1] is a country that aims to represent not just a historical territory, ethnolinguistic group, or body of governance, but a unique civilization in its own right. [2] It is distinguished from the concept of a nation state by describing a country's dominant sociopolitical modes as constituting a ...