 Molina explained why and how domination was introduced after the Fall, coining the term dominium iurisdictionis for temporal power, in contrast to dominium proprietatis (Molina-DII II, 20; II, 22; II, 23; Brett 2011), in order to avoid the equivocal use of the term dominium that had confused discussions since the debate on Franciscan poverty in thirteenth and fourteenth centuries (Brett 1997). The political authority of the commonwealth—res publica—is directly given by God, as it was difficult to imagine that there was a new contract in every generation. Nevertheless, the power (potestas) of the government comes only indirectly from God and directly from the republic (Molina-DII II, 26.4). Molina accepted the common Salamancan view that communities had transferred power to rulers.