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The Gauls were not far removed from an ecclesiastical state with its pope and councils, its immunities, interdicts, and spiritual courts; only this ecclesiastical state did not, like that of recent times, stand aloof from the nations, but was on the contrary pre-eminently national. Want of Political Centralization The Canton-Leagues

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

The Gauls were not far removed from an ecclesiastical state with its pope and councils, its immunities, interdicts, and spiritual courts; only this ecclesiastical state did not, like that of recent times, stand aloof from the nations, but was on the contrary pre-eminently national. Want of Political Centralization The Canton-Leagues

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book V : The Establishment of the Military Monarchy