POL208Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: North American Union, Cybercrime, Cyberterrorism
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A lot of different political units in europe (kingdoms, principalities, duchies etc. ) Exercised a lot of power but similar to canada in 1867, these various units did not exercise complete sovereignty. Two entities that transcended these political units; These two powers meddled and invited to intervene in affairs. Most of the time, both worked together in this capacity, sometimes in conflict: westphalian comes from peace of westphalia, which ended this large scale war, main difference prior to this conflict related to sovereignty. Spiritual matters intervene in the sovereignty of other states: they did not disappear however they lost their power, with it being consolidated into leader"s hands (king of france, king of sweden etc. ) Over succeeding centuries, it spreads to the rest of europe and globally. One of the legacies of the european colonial time. Newly independent countries wanted to follow the model of the new.