Nation

Because states are natural to humans, nations play only a peripheral, temporary role in their development. After all, the concept of a nation state is only a recent development in human history; prior to this nations did not coincide (at least to any great extent, as is the case today) with the states that existed. Although today we take this connection for granted (and it is this finding that accounts for this chapter) and are ready to discuss state legitimacy on those terms, this is contemporary thinking that is only a couple of centuries old.

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