Meaning Of Nation State

Nation-State

The nation-state has developed quite recently, prior to the 1500s in Europe the nation-state did exist because they didn’t know much else other than the village in which they came from. The term nation-state means a form of political origination in which a group of people who share the same history, traditions or language line in a particular are under one government. But the term the nation-state is much more than that, the hyphen in the middle of the term is what links them. The nation-state has four components which are territory which can also mean land and area. The second component are the population or people, the third is the government and the fourth component is Sovereignty, supreme power or authority to govern itself

A nation state is a state than rules over one single nation. In a nation state people will share common languages, history and culture. The term reflects the situation in which the boundaries of a state coincide with the geographical area occupied by a nation. There can also be states that are not nations such as Switzerland, where citizens speak four different languages and have different cultures. But there can also be nations that are not states for this it happen a region must be lacking a firm border and must not be considered to be an independent state by the other countries around it. A way we know that the nation-state is the most important and most successful political organization since the 1500s is that nearly all states refer to themselves as nation-states, not caring what their national identity might be. Governments work to try and build a national identity among their citizens and sometimes the government is able to create that identity, which is why people argue that nation-state is more based of perception and what you think you are than what the facts are saying and what you actually

The new Italian state started with a sense of national and political identity limited to a small oligarchic elite II, a backward economy, and opposition from the Roman Catholic Church. Centuries of separate rule in the various provinces had left differences of administration, law, taxation, politics, and land ownership. The South did not receive the improvement in governance that it was expecting, and was controlled by military occupation. The population spoke around 20 different dialects, often not mutually comprehensible. After the death of Camillo Benso of Cavour in 1861, who was an Italian statesman and one of the leaders for the Italian unification, the governments became extremely weak and unstable because now they were not supported by an adequate civil society. The oligarchy was broadened by an extension of the franchise in 1882 and nearly universal male suffrage in 1912, but Catholic political participation was prohibited by the Church until the Concordat of 1929 and social opposition was intermittently suppressed. Discredited by its performance in the First World War (1915-18) and unable to manage the social tensions caused by early industrialization, the state allowed itself in 1922 to be taken over by a “fascist” dictatorship under Mussolini which survived until defeated in the Second World War in 1943. In 1946, a Parliamentary Republic was set up and female