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Example sentences for: nationhood
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In an alternative version of the postbellum legal order, also based on the value of nationhood, Charles Black stresses the reliance on national citizenship in the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
The love for each and the needs of each come to the fore in the affective bonds of family, friendship, tribe, and, by extension, in the reciprocal attachments of nationhood.
Yet, the very effort to secure this fair representation of all voting groups threatens both the sense of common nationhood in the United States and calls into question the integrity of individual decision making in democratic elections.
An article argues that Timothy McVeigh's view of the Constitution--people may judge and overthrow a government that has exceeded its authority--is consistent with the vision of the Founding Fathers (but Lincoln forged a "new Constitution" based on "nationhood, equality and democracy").
Yet, Black ignores the cardinal values of equality and democracy, which, along with nationhood, represent the cornerstones of the postbellum legal order.
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