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 | | Instead we see a system that comprises more or less “modern” territorial states headed by now firmly established sovereigns, like France and Sweden, perhaps England after the Glorious Revolution, the old Empire and its lose structures and many remnants of the old order such e.g. |
 | | the institution of the Reichsacht and the famous ius armorum. |
 | | The latter is, contrary to the common assertion that here the right of alliances exemplifies the emergence of the “state system”, a right that belonged to the “estates” and was part and parcel of the old right of resistance of the nobles of the realm! |
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