Question

Can anyone help me?

Answer 1

Depends on the question.

Answer 2

What is the difference between a nation, a state, and a nation-state

Answer 3

@e.mccormick

Answer 4

OK, they used to call them all states. Did you try looking up the terms? Any you find particularly confusing?

Answer 5

she said we cant look them up, is a nation like the culture and language?, state being were they live?

Answer 6

Can't look them up? Hmmm... did the material cober them at all?

While nations and states have cultural aspects, think more along the lines of who makes the laws and what those laws deal with at the national and state levels.

Answer 7

know, she said because it was in a earlier module. but I couldn't find it. and the government?

Answer 8

they deal with people culture and what they do?

Answer 9

It all goes back to the Greeks... well, I can trace it back that far. The Greeks were in several different city-states. Each was its own territory and sovereignty. There was no nation in the way that we see it. Now, they did have Greek pride! Someone attacked Greece and they might get trounced by large groups of the city-states.

Eventually a few leaders unified all of Greece. These were some of the early nations. All the people unified under one government. But frankly, that national government was mostly concerned with trade, borders, and threats to the whole nation. They left the day to day stuff up to the local leaders, the city-states.

Now, that sound anything like how the USA is today?

Answer 10

know not to me, I think the government does try's to do everything so they don't leave stuff to local thinkers.

Answer 11

Well, look at the constitution. It delegates some power to the national government (tade and problems between states) and leaves the rest to the state governments. The states get to decide what speeds yu drive on what roads, where you can build certain businesses, and so on. So the national level is very different from the state.

Answer 12

but don't it still have to get passed by some one for it to go through?

Answer 13

Well, what last they do and how involved they are in day to day living is very different. I do admit that the US government is poking its nose more and more into personal lives. However, in general, when you get pulled over on the freeway it is a state official, not a federal one. You see county and state buildings all over, but federal ones are only in some locations. State laws are enforced by cities, but federal ones are only enforced by the feds.

Answer 14

So, let's work in the premise that a nation and a state are different in how much they meddle in day to day life and what they are overall on top of. Then what would you call it if a government did all of that in one? Say they were both the local and the overall governing body wrapped into one.

Answer 15

sorry my os was messing up. but nation-state?

Answer 16

Yah. And that is essentially it. You have a nation that takes over some things for all the states and sets up the overall laws. Inside the nation you have states with their own control of the people. But if there is only one government and it does both, it is a nation-state.

Answer 17

oh okay I see.

Answer 18

And if you can remember how the USA is structured (Well, on paper) you should be able to remember the terms.

Answer 19

ookay thank you help and time:)

Answer 20

*okay

Answer 21

np. Have fun!