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 | | Adherents of the Lutheran Confession, trained at Lutheran universities, now sat among its judges by the side of Catholic colleagues, though the principle of an actual numerical equality between them was not yet adopted, and the presiding judge continued to be always a Catholic. |
 | | The Reichskammergericht was now empowered to regulate its own procedure by " common decrees " (gemeine Bescheide), to which a binding force attached until they were revoked at an annual visitation by an Imperial deputation ; and in these visiting commissions also it was provided that the Lutherans should be regularly represented. |
 | | The competence of this tribunal, and of the Emperor's ordinances concerning it, was steadily denied by the Estates ; nor was it till the Peace of Westphalia that it received full recognition and became a permanent part of the Constitution of the Empire. |
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