What was one of the new elements in Renaissance Italian city-state politics?
A) The preference for using fear rather than piety as a basis of government.
B) Using a professional army of mercenaries to control the peasants.
C) The concept of a monarch who ruled with divine approval.
D) The organized collection of taxes using government agents.
E) The concept of a secular state that existed independently of both ruler and ruled.
E
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