#they both struggled with how to make government work wrt public opinion
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a really interesting thing about the english civil war and the french revolution is that they are underpinned by the same motivation (ie. government cannot function if the public opinion is not uniform) but manifested, respectively, into an attempt at religious homogenisation vs attempting to make citizenship and nationality coterminous
#.text#and the latter is just civic nationalism which is usually a coat of paint for ethnonationalism. but interesting how post westphalia#they both struggled with how to make government work wrt public opinion
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