Czar Alexander I made a declaration on September 26, 1815. While declaring his scheme, he thought that permanent peace could be established in Europe only by following the holy teachings of the Christian religion.

The relations between the rulers and the ruled should be like the father and the son. The rulers should be governed by the guidelines as suggested in the Holy Book. C.D. Hazen has explained the Holy Alliance as follows:

“The document (Holy Alliance) stated that it was the intention of the powers henceforth to be guided, in both their domestic and foreign policies, solely by the precepts of the Christian religion.

The rulers announced that they would regard each other as brothers and their subjects as their children, and they promised to aid each other on all occasions and in all places.”

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The above definition of the Holy Alliance consisted of the following main points:

(i) That, the rulers will regard each other as brothers and they will help each other on all occasions when need so arises.

(ii) That, they will regard their subjects as their children, and they will give top priority to the maintenance of peace, happiness, law and order in their respective countries.

(iii) That, the people will regard the rulers as their father and they will follow the holy principles of the Christian religion.

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(iv) The rulers will be solely governed, in both the domestic and the foreign affairs, by the holy precepts of the Christian religion.

As regards the objects of the Holy Alliance, Czar Alexander I announced as follows:

“The present act has no other object than to publish; both in the administration of their respective states and in their political relations with every other government, to take for their sole guide the precepts of that holy religion, namely the precepts of that Justice.

Christianity, Charity and Peace which far from being applicable only to private concerns, must have an immediate influence on the counsels of princes and guide all their subjects, as being the only means of consolidating human institutions and remedying their imperfections.”