The establishment of norms in order to assess the representative of the general population norming.
When we have norms and a population (even different populations), we're also able to create norms for these different populatons and then later on create the values that will be used.
Friction was developed over which country would be able to call the territory of Texas as part of their own nation. Both America and Mexico wanted the territory of Texas and this caused them to fight over it. Thus started the Mexican-American War.