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The author analyzes the relationship among legal nationhood, social nationhood, & democracy in democratic constitutional states. After identifying the definitions of democratic constitutional state, he concludes that it is an efficient structure within which one can investigate the relationship among democracy, legal, & social nationhood. He suggests that these three principles have their normative roots in human freedom, ie, in the freedom of participating in political negotiation, in the freedom from coercion & unjust rule, in the freedom from exigency, & in the free participation in the "we" of the modern industrial, technological & information society. Finally, the author analyzes the tension between the legal & social nationhood which may be fruitful only if democracy contributes to the accomplishment of major social changes that maximize human freedom. Adapted from the source document.