88 Ohio App. 431 - State v. McElhinney’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “The Bishop of Rome was early recognized as the successor of Saint Peter.... And, in the court of time, the successor of Saint Peter, began to claim universal jurisdiction of law, not only over the Christian Church, but also over temporal kings and princes. The typical expression of this claim is found in a supposed letter of Pope Clement I, A.D. 91 addressed to the clergy, and later included in the so-called Decretals of Isidore, the vital Clauses read: ‘Tour duty is to teach the peoples. Their duty is to obey you as they would God Himself.... And all princes, high or low, and other peoples, tribes, and languages, who do not obey shall be infamous, and shall be cast out from the kingdom of God and the company of the faithful.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. King

2. “But in Innocent’s day the Roman church was vastly more than that; it claimed and possessed supreme temporal political power over the entire Christian world. Rome was once more the mistress of Europe, and kings were its vassals. Its clergy were immune from the criminal justice of the state. Its legislation covered the whole of human existence from the cradle to the grave; it was upheld by penalties that neither the proudest monarch nor the humblest peasant could escape; and it was administered by a supreme world-judge responsible to no earthly superior for his actions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. King

3. “Such was the atmosphere at the time in which it is stated in Swann v. Broome, 3 Burrows, 1595, that these canons were adopted by the Saxon kings, fortified by Edward the Confessor and confirmed by William the Conqueror and Henry II.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. King