How do these two monumental moments in global history shape what becomes the nation?

nation?Yeah, so what happens here is that it is not cultural or linguistic differences, so there is no linguistic difference between British Parliament or the British king and the rebels in what later became the United State.

And the same happens also with French elites and the French king.

So there is no cultural difference.

But what happens is, and this is probably, uh, best made clear with the, the example of the French Revolution.

So the king convened the traditional Estates General, where the clergy, the nobility, and the Third Estate assembled separately, and each had just one vote.

So the clergy and the nobility easily outvoted the Third Estate, although the Third Estate represented 97% of the population.

Nations still remain intact in the period from the early '80s up to today, don't they?