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Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, second unified edition, English volume

Multi-national state

Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, second unified edition, English vol.
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Multi-national state  (MULTI-NATIONAL state)


Inhabitants of a nation or state may be subjects 1 citizens 1 or nationals 1 of that state, who enjoy certain political rights, or they may be aliens 2 or foreigners 2 who are citizens of another state, or citizens of no state at all and called stateless 3. The term “subject” used to have a servile connotation but has tended to lose it and is frequently taken as a synonym of citizen, though occasionally a distinction is made between a subject and a citizen. Citizens of a state generally possess the nationality 4 of that state. This term is nowadays used as a synonym for citizenship 4, but in some multi-national states 6 a distinction may be drawn between political nationality 4 and ethnic nationality 5. More...