Constitutional patriotism
Constitutional patriotism: attachment to shared democratic institutions and principles, not to ethnic identity.
Constitutional patriotism (Verfassungspatriotismus) is the form of political belonging that takes shared democratic institutions and constitutional principles as object of loyalty, not blood or ethnic heritage. Formulated by Dolf Sternberger and developed by Jürgen Habermas in post-war German context, it offers a model of collective identity compatible with pluralism, cosmopolitan openness, and immigration. One of the key concepts of contemporary democratic theory.
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