[p. 503]
|503| of acknowledging that it was making war, nor of concluding peace with it.
The Peace of Lunéville, finally, has not only taken from Germany many rights of overlordship in Italy, but has wrested from it the whole left bank of the Rhine, and by itself has reduced the number of its princes and laid a foundation which will reduce the number of its estates by many more and make the individual parts all the more formidable to the whole and to the smaller estates.
A country one half of which in war either fights among themselves or abandons the general defence and by neutrality leaves the other half to the enemy, must be torn to pieces in war and dismembered in peace, because the strength of a country consists neither in the multitude of its inhabitants and warriors, nor in its fertility, nor in its size, but solely in the way in which, through the rational connection of the parts into one public power, all this can be used for the great purpose of common defence.
[4. Jurisdiction]
Cross-reference: The administration of justice in the Groundlines: § 209 ff., on the public character of legal proceedings § 224.
If, then, Germany in its war power and financial power forms no public power within itself, and for this reason must be regarded not as one state but as a multitude of independent states, of which the larger act independently even externally, while the smaller must follow some great train, and the associations which from time to time come about for some particular purpose under the name of the German Empire are always partial and concluded at the pleasure of the allies themselves, then these associations lack every advantage which the coalitions of other powers can have;
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