NATION
(nation)
The US Military was not always strong and at many points in U. S. history Americans did not want a large military feeling that the oceans protected America from invasion and that we should not be involved in wars in the rest of the world. This isolationist sentiment has been existent in America ever since the founding but has gotten stronger and weaker at different periods.
A nation is a community of people formed on the basis of a common language, history, ethnicity, or a common culture, and, in many cases, a shared territory. A nation is more overtly political than an ethnic group; it has been described as "a fully mobilized or institutionalized ethnic group". Some nations are equated with ethnic groups (see ethnic nationalism and nation state) and some are equated with an affiliation with a social and political constitution (see civic nationalism and multiculturalism). A nation has also been defined as a cultural-political community that has become conscious of its autonomy, unity and particular interests. In international law nation is the term for a sovereign state.
