When men, therefore, break up the original compact or agreement which gives its corporate form and capacity to a state, they are no longer a people, they have no longer a corporate existence, they have no longer a legal coactive force to bind within, nor a claim to be recognized abroad.
Sumner asserts that breaking the original agreement of a state results in a loss of its corporate identity and legal standing.
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