The immediate actuality in which states stand toward one another particularizes itself into manifold relations, whose determination proceeds from the independent arbitrary will of both parties and thus has the formal nature of treaties in general. The subject matter of these treaties is, however, of infinitely less variety than in civil society, in which individuals stand in mutual dependence according to the most manifold considerations, whereas independent states are primarily wholes self-sufficient within themselves.
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