Note 302 — Chapter XV · THE EMPIRE AS AN INTERNATIONAL POWER.
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Marquard Freher. The question whether the seven electors vote as singuli or as a collegium, is solved by shewing that they have stepped into the place of the senate and people of Rome, whose duty it was to choose the Emperor, though (it is naïvely added) the soldiers sometimes usurped it.—Peter de Andlo, De Imperio Romano.