The Next Five Centuries

Event · treaty

The Restoration Principle

A frontier moved by force is returned by treaty.

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The Restoration Principle (2240s). This settlement becomes a formal rule, added to the Sealing Treaty: territory seized by force must be returned through a negotiated agreement. Every treaty signatory has a continuing interest in enforcing that rule, because accepting one conquest would make its own borders less secure.

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