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Excerpt from The Period of Congresses
With the territorial arrangements of the Peace of Westphalia (the satisfactions of certain of the Powers) we need not concern ourselves here. What directly interests us is the fact that from the great international compact of this Peace date the real beginnings of modern international law, as resting upon the principle of territorial sovereignty then first definitely acknowledged; and that, as has been well said, 'the work Of Grotius was rendered necessary by the failure of Empire and Papacy.
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