Of course, a nation should have both because a nation will not have freedom if it doesn't have the ability to govern. The ability to govern is to make freedom for the nation and to make a nation independent.
Texas was independent and referred to as The Republic of Texas from 1836 to 1845.
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It was never an independent nation
Liechtenstein is a state, and independent country and a nation. All these terms are interchangeable. P.S. A "state" can mean either an independent country, or the sub-divisions of a federal country.
It is an independent city that is also a nation.
It is obviosly an independent nation!( :
Because we were, and remain, an independent nation.
Because we were, and remain, an independent nation.
Saint Lucia is a sovereign and independent nation.
The American Revolution made the US an independent nation.
Honduras is an independent nation.
India became an independent nation.
An independent nation is one in which its residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over its territory.
The African nation that's has been independent is the Ethiopia