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The Papal States are taken into a unified Italy. The papacy spends fifty-nine years as a sovereign without a country.
In plain words
The Papal States are absorbed into a united Italy, and the papacy spends fifty-nine years as a sovereign without a country. What survived is the one function losing land cannot touch, financing the men who rule it: you cannot besiege a licence.
The mechanism
THE KINGDOM WAS TAKEN, AND ONLY ONE FUNCTION SURVIVED IT — an institution that rules a territory can be invaded; an institution that finances the men who rule territories cannot, because each of them needs it again next season. You cannot besiege a licence
How it was checked
- EvidenceT5 INDEPENDENT SECULAR; Status: COMMITTED
- Letter eraTHE SEAT MOVES TO THE BENCH 1713 to 1945
- Plate — Ludovico Tuminello, the breach at Porta Pia, Rome, 1870 · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BrecciaPortaPia.jpg
- SourcesSECULAR RECORD
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