Statement

By the seventeenth century, the Commonwealth resembled a federation of estates more than a centralized state.

References

1. p. 239

   supports · main text · ch. 9

   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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