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A nation, in a broad sense, is a historical-cultural community with a territory that considers itself and that sees itself with a certain degree of consciousness differentiated from the others. The modern sense of nation was born in the second half of the eighteenth century, as a group of citizens in which the sovereignty of the State resides.
Portugal.
Portugal and Spain had divided the Western Hemisphere, Portugal controlling Brazil being one of the countries they had gained land of. Spain had parts of present day United States (Texas, California, etc).
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The federalist papers tried to convince people to ratify the United States constitution. The Federalist papers consist of eighty-five letters written to newspapers in the late 1780s. These letters were written by Alexander Halminton, James Madison, and John Jay asserting that the proposed system would preserve the Union and empower the federal government seeking to act coherently in the national interest