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[Footnote 27: That is, the right of the civil power to grant churchoffices at will, and to invest ecclesiastics with symbols of theiroffices and receive their oaths of fealty. ] The civil power was to pledge itself to be prompt in the execution oftheir decrees against those who despised their authority. But if thedecisions of those judges were to carry weight, they must be men ofunblemished integrity. The purity of their ermine must be altogetherunsullied. The sale of the highest spiritual offi...ces by the prince, whohad deprived the clergy and people of their right to elect them, whichhad stained the hands of the Church and undermined its power, must bealtogether forbidden. Elections must be free. The custom of investitureby sovereigns with the ring and crozier, which had rendered thehierarchy and clergy the creatures of their will, must be forbidden. The clergy must possess an absolute exemption from the criminal justiceof the state. They must recognize but one ruler, the pope, who disposedof them indirectly through the bishops or directly in cases ofexemption, and used them as tools for the execution of his behests.
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