Cuius regio, eius religio
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Cuius regio, eius religio
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Cuius regio, eius religio is a Latin phrase which literally means "whose realm, their religion" – meaning that the religion of the ruler was to dictate the religion of those ruled. This legal principle marked a major development in the collective freedom of religion within Western civilization. Before tolerance of individual religious divergences became accepted, most statesmen and political theorists took it for granted that religious diversity weakened a state – and particularly weakened eccle
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Historical legal principle
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuius_regio,_eius_religio
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2003-09-21T15:37:16Z
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2024-09-15T17:50:10Z
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