Excerpt from Jewish Rights at International Congresses<br><br>The Treaty of Westphalia of 1648, terminating the Thirty Years' War, demonstrated that there could no longer be a universal Catholic Church in Christendom, and that it was futile to endeavor by war to force nations to accept particular religious views. But it merely established the principle for Continental Europe that each sovereign was free to determine the religion which was to prevail in his own land, and allowed the subject holding differing views no alternative but emigration, unless his sovereign otherwise decreed. It was an enormous step forward, when the Congress of Vienna, in 1815.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.