German territorial losses, Treaty of Versailles, 1919. Germany lost World War I. In the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, the victorious powers (the United States, Great Britain, France, and other allied states) imposed punitive territorial, military, and economic provisions on defeated Germany.
The process was Land of Ordinance.
In Montesquieu's De l'Esprit des Louis (Spirt of Laws) he argues for the creation of constitutional systems of government that embody the principle of separation of powers. He also believed that the political system should protect civil liberties.
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It was an era of peace and prosperity.