“ Art. XLVII. In cases wherein such a State is threatened or attacked in its possessions situated beyond the Confederation, the liability of the Confederation only extends to common measures of defence, or to participation and assistance only in so far as the Diet, after previous deliberation, has recognized by a majority of votes in the ordinary Assembly, the existence of danger for the Federal territory. In the latter case the provisions of the preceding Articles are equally applicable.
War being declared by the Confederation, no separate State can enter into negotiations of Peace. ”

“ Art. XXXII. Each Government of the Confederation being obliged to see to the execution of the Federal Resolutions, and the Diet not being authorized to interfere directly in the internal administration of the Confederated States, measures of execution can only as a rule be taken against the Government itself. ”

“ Right of Confederation to declare War, make Peace, enter into Alliances, and negotiate Treaties.
Art. XXXV. The Confederation has the right, as a Collective Power, to declare war, to make peace, to contract alliances, and to conclude other Treaties. According, however, to the object of the Confederation expressed in Article II. of the Federal Act, it only exercises this right for its own defence, for the maintenance of the self-existence and external security of Germany, as well as for the independence and inviolability of the individual States of the Confederation. ”