That system holds at its core the principle that a state may not acquire territory by force.

The prerogative currently includes the right of the prime minister to deploy the armed forces overseas, send ambassadors, ratify treaties, acquire territory and revoke passports.

Nations can acquire territory or lose territory and people, consider people citizens they previously denied citizenship to, e.g. stateless persons, indigenous people, and undocumented immigrants or long stay foreign residents.

He clashed with some military structures about the handling of the newly acquired territories.

Gold recently had been discovered there, greatly increasing the importance of and the interest in that newly acquired territory.