chunk: Three Definitive Articles would provide not merely a cessation of hostilities, but a foundation on which to build a peace.
  "The civil constitution of all states to be republican"
  "The law of nations shall be founded on a federation of free states"
  "The law of world citizenship shall be limited to conditions of universal hospitality"
  Kant's essay in some ways resembles modern democratic peace theory. He speaks of republican, Republikanisch, (not democratic), states, which he defines to have representative governments, in which the legislature is separated from the executive. He does not discuss universal suffrage, which is vital to modern democracy and quite important to some modern theorists; later commentators dispute whether it is implied by his language. The essay does not treat republican governments as sufficient by themselves to produce peace: freedom of emigration (hospitality) and a league of nations are necessary to consciously enact his six-point program.