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There were also many occasions during the Middle Ages when individual popes were weak and ineffective and could not even enforce obedience within the ecclesiastical hierarchy itself.

The Abbasid caliphs enforced fair trade practices and used their well-trained armies primarily to secure good trade routes, to enforce fair tax collection and to quell occasional rebellions.

Henry II (r. 1154 - 1189) created a system of royal sheriffs to enforce his will, created circuit courts that travelled the lands hearing cases, and created a grand jury system that allowed people to be tried by their peers.

To enforce its will and ensure 'security', the Committee of Public Safety instituted what later became known as 'The Terror', as those suspected of treason were arrested, interrogated and confronted with the possibility of imprisonment or execution.

Justinian felt it was his sacred duty as leader of the largest Christian empire in the world to enforce religious uniformity among his subjects and to stamp out heresy. He called himself "beloved of Christ", a title that later emperors would adopt as well.

Thus, in 1526 Charles V allowed the German princes to choose whether or not to enforce his ban on Lutheranism as they saw fit, in the hope that they would continue to offer him military aid - he tried unsuccessfully to revoke this reluctant toleration in 1529, but it was too late.