Regulating the ecclesiastical power of discipline, forbidding bodily chastisement, regulating fines and banishments granting the privilege of an appeal to the Royal Court of Justice for Ecclesiastical Affairs, the decision of which is final; 4.

Ordaining the preliminary education and appointment of priests.

They must have had a satisfactory education, passed a public examination conducted by the state, and have a knowledge of philosophy, history, and German literature.

Institutions refusing to be superintended by the state are to be closed.
These laws demonstrate that Germany is resolved that she will no longer be dictated to nor embarrassed by a few Italian noble families; that she will be master of her own house.

She sees in the conflict, not an affair of religion or of conscience, but a struggle between the sovereignty of state legislation and the sovereignty of the Church.