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Q: This process of unifying the European nations and, at the same time, establishing a state to govern the nation had given us the idea of the nation-state. The nation as a prepolitical reality finds its embodiment in the apparatus of state power.
A:
This process of unifying the European nations and establishing a state to govern had given us the idea of the nation-state. The nation finds its embodiment in the of state power.