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Reaffirming the leading role of the Lutheran Confession in the life of the state seemed necessary to all parties. If these measures seem bigoted, it's perhaps helpful to remember they came fast on the heals of the acquiescence to the Electors' religious settlement, which had never been popular with the Lutheran public, and which came in the face of Lutheran outrage over the growing, and influential, Calvinist and Jewish populations in Saxony. For these purposes, non-Lutheran Christians and non-Christians alike would be an invisible population. Local church records would function effectively as a census.

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Both voters and candidates were required to be (1) Lutheran (2) men (3) at least 25 years of age (4) owning unmortgaged property and (5) free of debt and (6) with no family supported on the public charge.ДЄnd to make it even more clear which doctrine ran the state, the districts which would be represented in subsequent Estates Generals would be drawn by the Lutheran parishes, under the directives that the districts would be (1) territorially contiguous and (2) represent as close to equal numbers of people as possible. Rather than having some members buy their seats outright and some chosen by local governments, all would be elected, but there would be a fee for the casting of each vote. To begin with, the seating of the first Estates General in 1579 would inaugurate a three year cycle of elections that would continue to the present day. Over the course of 1580, the Estates General was preoccupied with making good on its promise to set forth its own rules governing its selection, which turned into a more vexing and complicated question than originally envisioned.Д®ventually, it settled upon a scheme that would prove surprisingly durable. And the political crisis which had shadowed the economic one and prevented its easy resolution was now replaced by a surprisingly relaxed partnership between the Elector and the Estates General. With the financial crisis of the late 1570's finally resolved, the lending institutions were once again making money and trade and industry was expanding. In every way, the country seemed to be turning a page. With them passed some of the last crucial connections to the heroic age of the Spanish War. The next year Agnes of Hesse, daughter of the Landgrave Philip, widow of Duke Moritz, and wife of the Johannine duke Johann Heinrich, her ill-health aggravated by the stresses of the long political struggle between Alexander and the Johannines, died at the age of 53. In June 1580, the dowager Electress Dorothea passed at the age of sixty. It was as if, with the arrival of a new regime in which the authority of the state was, in some matters at least, held accountable to the will of the people, many of the dominant figures in Saxon political life made for the door. Germany at the Turning-Point, a New Sixteenth-Century History by Lydia Schenkl

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