Definition of Magistrate

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Definition of Magistrate
	Magistrate A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it. Related Definitions: As, Branch, Civil, Clothed, Executive, Government, Invested, It, Of, Officer, Or, Person, Power, Public, Some, The, With

Magistrate Quotations

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Bertrand Russell

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.
Thomas Babington

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
Grover Cleveland

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.
Maximilien Robespierre

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.
Edward Gibbon

This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king.
Gouverneur Morris

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
James K. Polk

When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'
Anthony Holden

So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.
Robert Barclay

Magistrate Translations

magistrate in German is richterlicher Beamter
magistrate in Italian is magistrato
magistrate in Swedish is polisdomare

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