Find the correct statements:
A. Nation is a community of communities.
B. State is a body that successfully claims a monopoly of legitimate force in a particular territory
C. Nations are communities that have a state of their own
D. Members of a nation do not share the desire to be a part of the same political conductivity
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
Statement D is incorrect.
At the simplest level, a nation is a sort of large-scale community – it is a community of communities. Members of a nation share the desire to be part of the same political collectivity. This desire for political unity usually expresses itself as the aspiration to form a state. In its most general sense, the term state refers to an abstract entity consisting of a set of political-legal institutions claiming control over a particular geographical territory and the people living in it. In Max Weber’s well-known definition, a state is a “body that successfully claims a monopoly of legitimate force in a particular territory” (Weber 1970:78).
Unlike the other kinds of communities mentioned before, nations are communities that have a state of their own. That is why the two are joined with a hyphen to form the term nation-state.