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    It is not the case that Nations need to have their own states

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    Reasons For

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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    Reason against 2 of 2
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    • Nations need to protect themselves from destruction or from forces that threaten their distinctive character
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