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en-wikipedia-org-7844		Civic nationalism - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2609	716	48	Form of nationalism compatible with progressive values of freedom, tolerance, equality and individual rights Thus, a "civic nation" is defined by not language or culture but political institutions and liberal principles, which its citizens pledge to uphold. In theory, a civic nation or state does not aim to promote one culture over another.[5] German philosopher Jürgen Habermas argued that immigrants to a liberal-democratic state need not assimilate into the host culture but only accept the principles of the country's constitution (constitutional patriotism).[5] Ernest Renan is often thought to be an early civic nationalist.[7] Philosopher Hans Kohn was one of the first to differentiate civic nationalism from ethnic nationalism in his 1944 publication The Idea of Nationalism: A Study in Its Origins and Background.[8] Membership of the civic nation is considered voluntary, as in Renan's classical definition in "Qu'est-ce qu'une nation?" of the nation as a "daily referendum" characterized by the "will to live together".[citation needed] Civic-national ideals influenced the development of representative democracy in countries such as the United States and France (see the United States Declaration of Independence of 1776, and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789). Liberal Nationalism (Tamir)	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7844.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7844.txt