At the end of an article on State Interference in Papal Elections Herbert Thurston has expressed the hope that there might be a “new Papal Constitution affirming in explicit terms the absolute independence of conclaves” from the form of secular interference known as the Vetoor Right of Exclusion. The article was written after the elevation of Pius X, but before the publication of the Constitution Commissum Nobis. The latter was issued on January 20, 1904, and meets with gratifying precision the wishes of Father Thurston.