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mother country

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the country where you were born

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Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country. John W. Campbell

A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals. Fred Hampton

[A]ll men seem now to feel that the fatal compliance in 1766 has encouraged the Americans annually to encrease in their pretensions to that thorough independency which one state has of another, but which is quite subversive of the obedience which a colony owes to its mother country. George III of the United Kingdom

A homeland may also be referred to as a fatherland, a motherland, or a mother country, depending on the culture and language of the nationality in question. Source: Internet

As many as 21 million people of Indian origin live and work abroad and constitute an important link with the mother country. Source: Internet

At first the countries followed mercantilism designed to strengthen the home economy at the expense of rivals, so the colonies were usually allowed to trade only with the mother country. Source: Internet

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