| Allowing the enjoyment of self-determination to substate national groups makes membership in a multinational state more equitable for their members and enhances the legitimacy of such a state. |
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| The equality of status of national groups provides conditions of inclusion in a viable multinational state or, when this is impossible, a basis for negotiation among state-endowed groups. |
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| The institutional arrangements of a multinational state need to include provisions assuring that the state cannot encroach upon a national group's power to control its political future. |
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| A national group from a multinational state may have less of a chance of entering into relationships with national groups outside of the state it belongs to than does a nation with its own state. |
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| Canada is, in fact, a multinational state, but now Canadians aspire to making a Nation-State. |
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| The reality is more hopeful for those who see the UK as a successful multinational state. |
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| Twice in the past 100 years they have escaped from the unwelcome embrace of a multinational state to gain independence. |
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| In contrast to what is perceived as an oppressive multinational state, it may offer space for identities to flourish. |
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| Being British was not an exclusive national identity, but a shared civic identity to underpin a multinational state. |
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| They believe in the principle that we can belong both to the people of Quebec and be part of a multinational state. |
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| But most of the inhabitants of Scotland think it is a nation within a multinational state. |
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| In addition, they have long considered it an advantage to belong to both Quebec and Canada, and to thus be part of a multinational state. |
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| Exemplary in it was the Burgundian knighthood which had to search a balance between the nations, between German and French as a backing of a multinational state, already to receive this. |
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| Toward the end of his life, however, he became a universally revered man, a personality that for all its defects and insufficiencies held together the rotting structure of the multinational state. |
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| Great difficulty was experienced in crafting this multinational state. |
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| Spain has a complex and contradictory tradition as a multinational state. |
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| Indeed, his perceptive, skillful policy on the national question enabled Soviet Russia to avoid total disintegration and to remain a huge multinational state. |
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| If Quebeckers are open to the idea of belonging to a sovereign multinational state, they have always come up against the refusal of Canadians to recognize the existence of the people of Quebec. |
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| The Canadian experience provides some potential solutions to the challenge of balancing representation and effectiveness in a multinational state. |
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| The text of the Constitution of BiH makes a clear distinction between constituent peoples and national minorities, in the interest of affirming the continuity of BiH as a democratic and multinational state. |
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| Lastly, we maintain that Canada's transformation into a multinational state is one possible means of alleviating the country's state of perpetual political crisis and ushering it into modernity. |
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| At the same time Russia being a multinational state, garantees to all nations, populating the territory of Russia, the right to maintain their native language and arrangement of conditions for its study and development. |
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| Since Tibetans live within the multinational state of the PRC, this distinct Tibetan cultural heritage needs protection through appropriate constitutional provisions. |
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| The discourse of social actors arose from the strongest defense of living conditions, the defense of natural resources, to the p rop osal for a multinational state, to call Constituent Assemblies. |
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| Linguistically, what is today the Republic of India is an unfragmented, multilingual, part-exoglossic, multinational State. |
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