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Giuseppe Garibaldi: Can the Pope, like the tyrants, sit upon a seat of bayonets?

On the recordJanuary 1, 1860
Can the Pope, like the tyrants, sit upon a seat of bayonets?
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Giuseppe Garibaldi

Editor's note · Context

Garibaldi questions the moral and practical viability of the Pope maintaining temporal power through military force, likening him to other despots.

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