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Raison d'État on Nostr: Martin Luther unified Church and State, by decreeing that Princes could decide what ...

Martin Luther unified Church and State, by decreeing that Princes could decide what church their people could follow.

The Catholic Church had been separate from secular states for more than a millenium by then, with a partial exception in the Papal States of central Italy.