. The star of the west; or, National men and national measures . t cease, nevertheless, to nego-tiate an accommodation. CHAPTER IV. We learn from his history that the Pope, onlytwo centuries ago, excommunicated a whole peoplefor exercising the right to punish, by civil jurisdic-tion, two ecclesiastics, for drunkenness, murder,and other crimes, and for prohibiting the erectionof monasteries and nunneries. These matters be-longed to the state government alone. The courtsof the church had no right to try civil cases, orinflict temporal punishment, without infringing onthe liberties of the people,
. The star of the west; or, National men and national measures . t cease, nevertheless, to nego-tiate an accommodation. CHAPTER IV. We learn from his history that the Pope, onlytwo centuries ago, excommunicated a whole peoplefor exercising the right to punish, by civil jurisdic-tion, two ecclesiastics, for drunkenness, murder,and other crimes, and for prohibiting the erectionof monasteries and nunneries. These matters be-longed to the state government alone. The courtsof the church had no right to try civil cases, orinflict temporal punishment, without infringing onthe liberties of the people, and violating the lawsof Grod. The Pope demanded that these criminalsof the republic of Venice should be tried by himin his ecclesiastical court, and threatened an in-stant interdict if prompt obedience did not monasteries were polluting and ruining theircountry ; and the senate passed salutary laws pro-hibiting their future erection, without the consentof the legislature, and regulating the bestowmentof property on the clergy, who were securing the. ^fitt®
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