"proposition nation" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "proposition nations",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "proposition nation (plural proposition nations)",
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    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Politics",
          "orig": "en:Politics",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Barbara Perry, Hate Crimes, volume 3, page 117",
          "text": "Because they view the world through a racial lens, white nationalists do not agree with the notion that America is a creedal or proposition nation, meaning one whose societal and cultural norms are based on acceptance of the Declaration of Independence and the other founding documents.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Nativism, Nationalism, and Patriotism, page 121",
          "text": "During the Cold War, conservative intellectuals, including Straussians and the brilliant Jesuit priest John Courtney Murray, advanced the concept of America as a “proposition nation” that was in conflict with a rival ideological nation, the Soviet Union. This conception of American identity based primarily on shared ideas took hold on the right.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A nation founded on certain creeds or ideals."
      ],
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          "politics",
          "politics"
        ],
        [
          "creed",
          "creed"
        ],
        [
          "ideal",
          "ideal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(politics) A nation founded on certain creeds or ideals."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "politics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "proposition nation"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "proposition nations",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Politics"
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        {
          "ref": "2009, Barbara Perry, Hate Crimes, volume 3, page 117",
          "text": "Because they view the world through a racial lens, white nationalists do not agree with the notion that America is a creedal or proposition nation, meaning one whose societal and cultural norms are based on acceptance of the Declaration of Independence and the other founding documents.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Nativism, Nationalism, and Patriotism, page 121",
          "text": "During the Cold War, conservative intellectuals, including Straussians and the brilliant Jesuit priest John Courtney Murray, advanced the concept of America as a “proposition nation” that was in conflict with a rival ideological nation, the Soviet Union. This conception of American identity based primarily on shared ideas took hold on the right.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A nation founded on certain creeds or ideals."
      ],
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          "politics",
          "politics"
        ],
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          "creed",
          "creed"
        ],
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          "ideal",
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(politics) A nation founded on certain creeds or ideals."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "politics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "proposition nation"
}