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Topic: Ecclesiastical States

	Dictionary Information: Definition State - Description Meaning Thesaurus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited.
		Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.
		State is the generic term, and denotes in general the mode in which a thing stands or exists.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ecclesiastical Property in the United States
		For, at present, in order to obtain protection from the improper interference of lay tribunals, which in practice scarcely acknowledge the ecclesiastical laws, nothing now remains to the bishops for carrying out ecclesiastical decrees but to claim for themselves the fullest administration of property before the civil power.
		As, however, church regulations are not acknowledged as yet in some States, it is our duty to see that in those places where no provision has been made by the civil law, the impediments to the liberty of the Church and to the security of ecclesiastical property be removed or diminished.
		And while in some States, owing to peculiar legislative enactments, other methods of holding church property are in vogue, yet it was admitted by the assembled prelates that the holding of church property by local parish corporations was by far the safest method.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12472a.htm (1054 words)

	Baden on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Stretching from the Main River in the northeast across the lower Neckar valley and along the right bank of the Rhine to Lake Constance (Bodensee), the former state of Baden bordered on France and the Rhenish Palatinate in the west, Switzerland in the south, Hesse in the north, and Bavaria and Württemberg in the east.
		Until the French Revolution the area was a confusing jigsaw puzzle of petty margraviates and ecclesiastical states (the bishoprics of Mainz, Speyer, Strasbourg, and Konstanz).
		In 1952 the two states were merged with Württemberg-Hohenzollern to form the new state of Baden-Württemberg.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/BadenG1er.asp (655 words)

	AllRefer.com - Germany - The Smaller States - The French Revolution and Germany \| German Information Resource
		By the eighteenth century, none of the other states of the empire were strong enough to have territorial ambitions to match those of Prussia and Austria.
		With the exception of the free cities and ecclesiastical states, smaller states, like Austria and Prussia, were governed by a hereditary monarch who ruled either with the consent or help of the nobility and with the help of an increasingly well-trained bureaucracy.
		The expulsion of about 20,000 Prote stants from the ecclesiastical state of Salzburg during 1731-32 was viewed by the educated public at the time as a harking back to less enlightened days.
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		The Colonial series is derived from the papers of the Secretaries of State, whose office was responsible for the conduct of relations between the home government and the colonies.
		Until it was secularized in 1802, Würzburg was one of the most important ecclesiastical states in Germany, and its Prince-Bishop was a major political figure, especially in central and southern Germany.
		Abraham Lincoln practiced law from 1836 to 1861, a quarter-century in which Illinois grew from a new state on the western frontier to become a commercial power, the gateway to the inland empire.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /e/libsoc/acq00.html (4137 words)

	Franconia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		gave the ecclesiastical states of Würzburg and Bamberg, already occupied by Bavarian troops, to the Electorate of Bavaria.
		Raised to the status of a kingdom in 1806, the new state added the formerly imperial cites of Nürnberg, Schweinfurt and Rothenburg, as well as a host of imperial estates in Franconia to its territory in the course of that year.
		In contrast to the Catholic delegates from south of the Da nube, who, with the exception of a few radical democrats remained loyal to the house of Wittelsbach, the Franconian delegates thought of themselves as Germans rather than as Bavarians.
	cscwww.cats.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/dh/franconi.htm (2018 words)

	Cassini
		He wrote treatises on this aspect of his work, in particular on the flooding of the river Po.
		He was also employed by the Pope in 1663 as superintendent of fortifications, then he travelled to Rome again in 1665 when he was named Superintendent of the waters of the ecclesiastical states.
		The Pope asked Cassini to take Holy Orders for he wished to see him permanently working for him.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Cassini.html (2115 words)

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