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The use of patriotism and nationalism originally shared a similar meaning in the 19th century, but their use and connotation gradually grown apart. The Merriam-Webster defines patriotism as "love for or devotion to one’s country", whereas nationalism is defined as "loyalty and devotion to a nation".
Americanism, also referred to as American patriotism, is a set of patriotic values which aim to create a collective American identity for the United States that can be defined as "an articulation of the nation's rightful place in the world, a set of traditions, a political language, and a cultural style imbued with political meaning". [1]
Civic virtues are historically taught as a matter of chief concern in nations under republican forms of government, and societies with cities.When final decisions on public matters are made by a monarch, it is the monarch's virtues which influence those decisions.
“A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle, and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.” — George William Curtis
Price starts out by establishing that he believes in patriotism, in love of one's own country. Because the revolution was overthrowing the French rulers and was seen as a dangerous example by the English political class, it was important to assert the fact that revolutionaries can be as "patriotic" as defenders of the country as it was.
Nathanson contends that patriotic loyalty is not always a virtue. A loyal person can, in general be relied upon, and hence people view loyalty as virtuous. Nathanson argues that loyalty can, however, be given to persons or causes that are unworthy. Moreover, loyalty can lead patriots to support policies that are immoral and inhumane.
Constitutional patriotism (German: Verfassungspatriotismus) is the idea that people should form a political attachment to the norms and values of a pluralistic liberal democratic constitution rather than to a national culture or cosmopolitan society.
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