Reflexões sobre nação, Estado social e soberania

Abstract

The idealist concept of nation n ation is soul, conscience, sentiment, humanism, citizenship and apothegm of values. nation is the people in its intuition of fraternity, justice and freedom; nation is law, integrity and civic dignity in a shared destiny, in the solid compact of values, in the patrimony of times laden with the grandeur of tradition; in the perpetual and collective memory of identity, in the flow of ideas that carry forth the energy of the people to remain as one in adversity and stand firm before bitter setbacks.nation is the march toward universality, the moral path man must take toward the apotheosis of triumph and the successful co-habitation of all social partners.nation is sacrifice, abnegation and blood spilled in the interest of causes that rim the heroism of humankind; and it is also the expression of the immortality of a people steeped in suffering, but rescued in hope.nation is the cult of the earth, the genius in language, the inspiration in poetry, the music in patriotism, the faith in religion, the power in ideology, the vocation in liberty and in law; all of these values that generations memorize and consecrate, driven by hope, and by the intent and purpose of making them as eternal and indestructible as the supreme forces of nature, above which man has no jurisdiction, which man cannot sentence to death or snuff out.nation is the homeland that begets the brave, the just, the artisans of progress and civilization, weaving the thread of equality so that it can extend throughout all social spheres; nation is homeland even when it rejects haughtiness, hate, privilege, prejudice and discrimination.nation is the breviary that psychologically frees the human being from the spiritual pitfalls and material subjections that corrupt the human spirit; It is likewise the commitment to the cause of the oppressed; the pavilion of the patriotic warriors raising the constitutional arms and voice of resistance to put the state at the service of the magnanimous social interests that make human dignity reach the heights of fruition of all the possible fundamental rights.nation is history and language forging the links that bind generations past, present and yet to come, thus projecting the immortality of the homeland and the eternity of man's natural right to consciousness. 1 estudos avançados 22 (62), 2008 196 among the peripheral peoples, nation represents the struggle of the state for free, democratic and participative citizenship, guaranteeing peace, meting justice, conciliating classes and protecting categories of the social body.nation is the subject in the courts as they ponder upon the hermeneutics of equity in a bid to resolve cases in which capital, taking the course of ambition, avarice and injustice, stifles and squashes the cause of labor and wages criminal war against cooperation and social peace among peoples.nation, according to the concept outlined above, comes already linked, through new interpretive methods and instruments, with the principle, notion and idea of the social stat...