Everyone could talk about politics; they encourage each other with patriotism and the responsibility of saving the country.
Patriotism and communalism were luxuries that they could ill afford now that partition had ruptured so many of their traditional subsistence networks.
By defining patriotism in terms of personal service, loyalism made it difficult for radicals to decouple patriotism from personalities.
His call for patriotism was one that strengthened rather than diminished the hierarchical relationship between rulers and ruled.
Yet this model of just two possible forms of identity, patriotism and nationalism, was only a stage on the road towards a more historical picture.
Constitutional patriotism, on their view, should shun all forms of 'identification' and, instead, inform 'practices that resist identification'.
I have argued that constitutional patriotism underestimates (and sometimes misunderstands) the role of particularist political cultures in grounding universalistic principles of democracy and justice.
The isolationist patriotism of 1935-45 persisted for a long time in the historical writing of the 1950s and 1960s.