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    States and nations can constitute meaningful associations... — Carmelics
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    States and nations can constitute meaningful associations despite being peripheral examples.

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    • 1.Meaningful associations offer a persistent, exclusive social context laden with common purposes that heavily inform our sense of identity.
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    • 2.Stable and enduring states provide a persistent, exclusive social context laden with common purposes that heavily inform citizens' sense of identity.
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    • 1.Meaningful associations require voluntary entry and exit as constitutive features, not merely incidental ones (cf. Rawls on the voluntary basis of association).
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    • 2.States compel membership through birthright citizenship and coercive territorial jurisdiction, making consent structurally absent rather than merely constrained.
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    • 3.An association whose defining feature is non-voluntary subjection cannot satisfy the voluntariness condition even as a peripheral or attenuated case.
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    • 1.Hegel and later communitarians distinguish between Gesellschaft-style legal-political bonds and the thicker Sittlichkeit of family and civil society as genuine identity-forming communities.
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    • 2.Modern pluralistic states lack the shared substantive purposes necessary for identity formation, instead coordinating among irreducibly diverse conceptions of the good (cf. Rawls's political liberalism).
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    • 3.An entity that deliberately abstains from imposing shared purposes cannot coherently be said to provide the common-purpose context that makes an association identity-constituting.
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    National and state associations: Given their size and nature, states and nations seem to be peripheral examples of associations. Nonetheless, if they are stable and enduring, they tick many of the boxes of meaningful association by offering a persistent, exclusive social context laden with common purposes that heavily inform our sense of identity. States use borders and border-control to exclude non-members from their territories and to prevent them from acquiring membership (Dagger 1985; Goodin
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