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Actually, in a legal sense, England, Wales and Scotland are nations… but they are not States, which is the proper term for an Sovereign entity. ….
The distinction drawn between a nation and a state is correct in accordance with a technical modern usage, although the technical distinction hasn’t always existed, and a nation can be a state, while a state can be nation.
Chick Young certainly considers Scotland a nation.
I suppose another way to draw the distinctions is as follows:
- A society is a significant group of people living within a certain geographical area with a significant degree of common values, culture or traditions.
- A nation is a society or groups of neighbouring societies that identity themselves as separate from other societies or nations.
- state is one or more nations within a geographical region bound together by a political or legal system.
(As first posted on Tony Kempster’s Non-League Forum)
