Theoretical-historical comparative study of the empire model and the sovereign state model : interdisciplinary research of the supranational federalism

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The trans-German character of the old Empire made the German state-building since 14^<th> century externally opener, internally more aristocratic, and the Peace of Westphalia reconfirmed traditional rights of the old Empire as personally-combined feudal body. On the other hand, the sovereign-state model which the collapse of the old Empire introduced in the individual state contributed to liquidate the feudal character of the Empire by the process of secularization confiscating the church goods. The collapse of the second Empire brought the deficit of the empire model as the federal state to light and called forth the constitutional debate toward the unified state, but the federalist structure was kept intact in the Weimar Constitution.