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    Nations need to have their own states — Carmelics
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    Nations need to have their own states

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    • Co-nationals need the institutional resources to fulfill the special obligations they owe one another as members of an ethical community
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    • Nations need to protect themselves from destruction or from forces that threaten their distinctive character
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    • 1.Cultural preservation and collective obligations can be fulfilled through robust minority rights regimes within multinational states.
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    • 2.Will Kymlicka's liberal multiculturalism demonstrates that group-differentiated rights can protect national identity without requiring sovereign statehood.
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    • 3.The demand for separate statehood conflates the need for cultural protection with a specific institutional mechanism that is neither necessary nor sufficient for it.
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    • 1.The concept of 'nation' is historically contingent and socially constructed, not a pre-political natural kind that generates stable state-entitling claims.
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    • 2.Ernest Gellner's constructivist account shows nationalism creates nations rather than nations generating nationalism, undermining the ontological premise of nationalist state-claims.
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    The first type of argument has two variants: One can argue that nations need to have their own states, either (1) in order to be able to protect themselves from destruction or from forces that threaten their distinctive character, or (2) in order for co-nationals to have the institutional resources to be able to fulfill the special obligations they owe one another as members of an “ethical community”, in Miller’s phrase. Both of these considerations can, under certain circumstances, weigh in fav
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