Anderson suggests that nationalism is a false sense of camaraderie. The Declaration of Independence extends to this claim by suggesting that there is a legal document that provides for this claim that the members of a nation can be brought together as one without meeting or having anything in common with one another other than the fact that they live on the same body of land.

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A nation is an organized group of people that are brought together and ruled by one form of government. Nationalism, the pride that one has for the advancement for his or her own country, brings together many of the the citizens in a single nation.  Benedict Anderson, the author of "Imagined Communities," has a different definition for a nation; he believes that it is an "imagined political community - and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign." He believes this because there is a feeling of connectivity between all of the citizens without having ever met or realizing that the differences between one another are large.  The theory of the "imagined community" is viable for any nation, including the United States of America. Under the Declaration of Independence, the citizens of America are brought together by one line "all men are created equal." How is it possible for one line of one document to bring so many people together? It is possible because it creates the illusion of a community.