Q: The nation-state concept originated in which of the following countries
A: nation-state is a political entity with sovereignty over a defined territory often coinciding with the distribution of a unified ethnic identity. [ The nation-state in Europe replaced the religious and imperial basis for political legitimacy following the Reformation. The Peace of Westphalia solidified the concept of nation-states and national sovereignty by constraining the rights of outsiders
to intervene in the internal affairs of others on religious or other pretexts. National sovereignty became a key concept in social contract theory. The related concept of self-determination of peoples has been used to justify formation of nation-states mirroring ethnic distributions, but completely homogenous countries rarely, if ever, exist. Unified identities have created nation-states, as in England, but have also developed in response to nation-state creation, as in France.
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