Full Idea
Why should national minorities not have the same powers of nation-building as the majority?
Gist of Idea
Why shouldn't national minorities have their own right to nation-build?
Source
Will Kymlicka (Contemporary Political Philosophy (2nd edn) [2002], 8.4)
Book Reference
Kymlicka,Will: 'Contemporary Political Philosophy (2nd ed)' [OUP 2002], p.352
A Reaction
A 'national minority' is marked by a different language, or a different religion, or both. No one doubts the majority's right to nation-build. Some further principle would be needed to deny that right to a minority. Maybe the minority was there first?
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Idea 23388 Liberals need more than freedom; they must build a nation, through a language and institutions [Kymlicka]