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The essay by Karl Marx criticizes two studies by Bruno Bauer on the attempt by Jews to achieve political emancipation in Prussia. Marx uses Bauer's essay as an occasion for his own analysis of liberal rights. Marx argues that Bauer is mistaken in his assumption that in a "secular state" religion will no longer play a prominent role in social life, and, as an example refers to the pervasiveness of religion in the US, which, unlike Prussia, had no state religion.