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Besides, the policy of military rule over a conquered territory would have implied that the States whose inhabitants may have taken part in the rebellion had by the act of those inhabitants ceased to exist.
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He critiques the idea that states involved in the rebellion ceased to exist, advocating for their continued legitimacy.
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