proposition nation

plural proposition nations

1. governmentA nation founded on certain creeds or ideals.

   Because they view the world through a racial lens, white nationalists do not agree with the notion that America is a creedal or proposition nation, meaning one whose societal and cultural norms are based on acceptance of the Declaration of Independence and the other founding documents.

   2009, Barbara Perry, Hate Crimes, volume 3, page 117

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   During the Cold War, conservative intellectuals, including Straussians and the brilliant Jesuit priest John Courtney Murray, advanced the concept of America as a “proposition nation” that was in conflict with a rival ideological nation, the Soviet Union. This conception of American identity based primarily on shared ideas took hold on the right.

   2020, Nativism, Nationalism, and Patriotism, page 121