According to prince klemens von matternich, what are the underlying principles that should guide the system and why? if applied to practice, what benefits would they provide for sosiety?

Klemens von Metternich (1773-1859) was a German nobel, who afterwards became prince and an important diplomat in the centre of European politics during the Restoration period, until the revolutions of 1848 began.

The Metternich System, Congress System or Vienna System, initiated after the Congress of Viena (1815), guided international relationships in the continent during the period delimited above. It consisted on using congresses and multilateral treaties for conflict resolution and to prevent that they can end up escalating to war. Hence, the ultimate goal of the system was to keep peace.

The more conservative parties used the Metternich system aiming to extinguish the revolutionary movements that were flourishing in Europe, to weaken the nationalisms and to restore the former power balances.

april 18, 1775, hundreds of british troops marched from boston to nearby concord in order to seize an arms cache.a confrontation on the lexington town green started off the fighting, and soon the british were hastily retreating under intense fire.

on april 19, 1775, american militia gathered to stop a british company sent from boston to capture supplies allegedly amassed in lexington, massachusetts. the militia fled, and the british left after not finding the supplies.

the treaty of brest-litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 march 1918 between the new bolshevik government of russia and the central powers (german empire, austria-hungary, bulgaria, and the ottoman empire), that ended russia's participation in world war i.