Nation state
The term nation state, while often used interchangeably with the term state, refers more properly to a state in which a single nation is dominant. Over the last few centuries (and particular over the last half-century (except in Africa)), this form of state has become more common, so that now most states claim to be nation states. However, this has not always been so; and even today there are some states where it is questionable whether they contain a single dominant nation. This is made more difficult by the question of what is a nation. There are many states, such as Belgium and Switzerland, with multiple linguistic, religious or ethnic groups within them, without any one being clearly dominant. However, often (and especially in the case of Switzerland and the United States of America) a national identity has been constructed despite these differences. A better example of a non-nation state would be the United Kingdom, which consists of the four nations England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. While people do talk of a 'British nation', it is questionable whether such an entity really exists. And although England was overwhelmingly dominant within the United Kingdom in the past, that can no longer be so clearly stated as the case.A somewhat similar example might be contemporary Spain, where Basques, Catalans, and Galicians claim to be nations distinct from the historically dominant Castile (the Spanish Constitution of 1978[?] hints at this by mentioning "regions and nationalities" within Spain).
Examples of non-nation states are empires, city-states, thalassocracies, and corporations (as in the cyberpunk genre or the Company of Indies[?]).
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them. James appointed commissioners to search out what was wrong with
well as support from the Virginia Assembly. In this attempt they signally
with long letters to King and Privy Council: the Sandys-Southampton
letters of appeal. The colony hoped that "the Governors sent over might
Council . . . . But above all they made it their most humble request that
nothing could more conduce to the publick Satisfaction and publick Liberty."
In London another paper, drawn by Cavendish, was given to King and Privy
"the Government of the companies as it then stood was democratical and
of a few." It is of interest to hear these men speak, in the year 1623, in
house stood out for personal rule. "However, they owned that, according to
Form; which was nevertheless, in that Case, the most just and profitable,
they observed that the opposite Faction cried out loudly against Democracy,
Government neither of better Form, nor more monarchical."
But the dissolution of the Virginia Company was at hand. In October, 1623,
Consideration the distressed State of the Colony of Virginia, occasioned,
ill-management lay in the reduction of the Government into fewer hands. His
and the substitution, "with due regard for continuing and preserving the
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new one so modeled?
The Company, through the country party, strove to gain time. They met.
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