True Invention: That is, of the inventions which have been invented by the German nation

people, called Lex Regia Royal Law, all power and authority of the Roman people in secular matters was transferred to the Imperial Majesty, solely and exclusively, without any cessation or retraction, and the Roman people relinquished their power entirely.

However, if the people had resisted in such a matter, which they did willingly and without coercion, they would undoubtedly have been forced to do so, since one cannot hear the salutary voices of praiseworthy laws amidst the great roar of war weapons, which (weapons and war power) also establish and abolish useful laws, and against which the law of the fist referring to Faustrecht, the right of the strongest, force, or violent law takes root.

At those same times, however, all old, praiseworthy virtue had extinguished, and the city of Rome had been conquered by different peoples with force many times, marched through in triumph three times, and trampled under foot—the city which previously had triumphed over other peoples, kingdoms, and princes, and was presented as a spectacle as a victorious conqueror—and thereby had to suffer that very same scorn and mockery upon itself which it had previously shown to its neighbors, indeed even to far-removed peoples.

Thence they also did not lift their head