In this vein the state is often compared to a ship that has to be steered through the open sea. Cf. for instance Philipp Andreas Oldenburger, Tractatus iuridico-politicus de rebuspublicis turbidis in tranquillum statum reducendis, in eoque conservandis (Geneva, 1677), 21, 70, 390. On the didactical poem cf. http://www.litde.com/das-hfische-gesellschaftsideal/dasritterliche-tugendsystem.php, consulted August 29, 2011. 14 The Swiss model of the Eidgenossenschaft (Confederacy) was most notably followed in the German Peasants' war, where the insurgents founded their Upper-Swabian Eidgenossenschaft. On the Venetian and the Dutch model see Eco O.G. Haitsma Mulier and
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