There can be no doubt that democracy, as a form of government for making decisions, facilitates the stability of the nation as a territorial community precisely because it recognizes legal rights and political participation for the vast majority of the population. (查看原文)
Furthermore, the attachment to an inherited fief as one’s own and the attachment to the national homeland as one’s own can be intermingled when there is a law of the land, enforced by the national centre (the royal courts), that protects the inheritance, thereby encouraging a loyalty – patriotism – to the national state. (查看原文)
The nation is a social relation of collective self-consciousness. Thus, the nation is formed around shared, self-designating beliefs that have such a structure. (查看原文)
