There are also several scientific organizations and societies.
In most cases, the company of merchants was merely one of the craft organizations which superseded the gild merchant.
Its actual strength, however, is about 15,000 men, some of the regimental and battalion organizations being skeletons.
As the laws and procedure are uniform throughout the republic and all decrees and findings have legal effect everywhere, the state judicial organizations may be considered as taking the place of district federal courts, although the constitution does not declare them so.
Long before the Protestant revolt, simple, obscure people, under the influence of leaders whose names have been forgotten, lost confidence in the official clergy and their sacraments and formed secret organizations of which vague accounts are found in the reports of the 13th-century inquisitors, Rainerus Sacchoni, Bernard Gui, and the rest.