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National Self-Determination is the idea that the borders of countries should be based on ethnicity and national identity. A group of people who feel that they are a nation, who should be allowed to have their own country. Wilson and other supporters of national self-determination believed that when borders are not based on national identity, border disputes will occur and nations are more likely to go to war to resolve them. The principal of national self-determination also meant that no nation should be allowed to keep territory taken from another nation.