He opposed it because he felt that it made the rich get richer and since he favored the common people and felt that it wasn't fair toward the common people .
Martin Luther of Germany, he generated a schism in the Catholic Church and formed his own Lutherism faction of Christianity.
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According to Machiavelli's the Prince, princes should act in a practical manner. Machiavelli produced a practical guide to the arts of statecraft, which served the practical needs of the powerful families that emerged in the Italian city-states during the Renaissance. Statecraft involved carefully crafted approaches to the realistic conditions faced by rulers. It was driven less by emotion or morality but reason.