‘A nation is the culmination of a long past of endeavours, sacrifice and devotion. A heroic past, great men, glory, that is the social capital upon which one bases a national idea. To have common glories in the past, to have a common will in the present, to have performed great deeds together, to wish to perform still more these are the essential conditions of being a people. A nation is therefore a large-scale solidarity…Its existence is a daily plebiscite.’Pick out the correct definition to define the term ‘Plebiscite’.
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‘A nation is the culmination of a long past of endeavors, sacrifice and devotion. A heroic past,
great men, glory, that is the social capital upon which one bases a national idea. To have common
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glories in the past, to have a common will in the present, to have performed great deeds together,
to wish to perform still more, these are the essential conditions of being a people. A nation is
therefore a large-scale solidarity.... Its existence is a daily plebiscite.... A province is its
inhabitants: if anyone has the right to be consulted, it is the inhabitant. A nation never has any
real interest in annexing or holding on toa country against its will. The existence is a guarantee of
liberty, which would be lost if the world has only one law and only one master.’
(i) From whose speech have these words been quoted? 1
(ii) What is Plebiscite? 1