The doctrine of the lesser magistrate is a concept in Protestant thought. A lesser magistrate is a ruler such as a prince who is under a greater ruler such as an emperor. The doctrine of the lesser magistrate is a legal system explaining the exact circumstances in which a lesser magistrate has both the right and the responsibility to resist the greater ruler.
The doctrine of the lesser magistrate is dependent on the private citizen argument from before the Reformation, which stated that any evil done by an officeholder is committed as a private citizen, rather than by the office.[1]
The use of the doctrine of the lesser magistrates carries with it the possibility of violence and war.
^Whitford, David (2001). Tyranny and Resistance: The Magdeburg Confession and the Lutheran Tradition. Concordia Publishing House.
The doctrine of the lessermagistrate is a concept in Protestant thought. A lessermagistrate is a ruler such as a prince who is under a greater ruler...
preliminary matters. Lesser offences, including all summary only offences and some either-way offences will be dealt with entirely in the magistrates' court. A wide...
proceeding only from the top down, hence the need for a lessermagistrate to become the new top magistrate. Over the 20th and 21st centuries, some Lutheran bodies...
practical manner and if necessary to use weapons and depose them. Lessermagistrate Du droit des magistrats sur leurs subiets (1574), p. 1; Google Books...
V in a multi-step legal formula now known as the doctrine of the lessermagistrate. Historian David Armitage has argued that the Declaration was strongly...
had to be fulfilled before an evil ruler could be resisted by the lessermagistrates. The concept of just rebellion that the term Beerwolf introduced was...
separation of church and state. The Calvinist and Lutheran doctrine of the lessermagistrate contributed to resistance theory in the Early Modern period and was...
meetings and the duties of the lessermagistrates were effectively just hosting various games, e.g. chariot racing. Most other lesser magistracies simply disappeared...
discredited. Sherman Booth, an example interposition from Wisconsin Lessermagistrate Bush v. Orleans Parish School Board, 188 F. Supp. 916 (E.D. La. 1960)...
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Christian nationalist militia activists to endorse a "Doctrine of LesserMagistrates" stating that counties should have the power to nullify state laws...
residence on the Palatine, and established an official priesthood of lessermagistrates to serve its cults, the seviri Augustales, usually promoted from his...
Lutherans developed a theory of resistance called the doctrine of the lessermagistrate which was later employed in the U.S. Declaration of Independence....
rule book (On Auspices). Among other things, it established that lessermagistrates could not call off (avocare, call away) an assembly which had already...
imperial purse, from which the Roman Empire never quite recovered, and lessermagistrates found their provision of various obligatory munera an increasingly...
classical history: to the ephors of the Spartan Constitution, as "lessermagistrates", or to the optimates of the late Roman Republic. The various strands...
Wilmot, daughter of a magistrate and an ambitious widow Jake Dunn as Thomas Blancheford, Sofia's brother and the magistrate's heir Pip Torrens as Lord...
to declare war, and to pass legislation presented by the senate. Lessermagistrates were elected by the comitia tributa, which also elected religious...
The lesser kiskadee (Philohydor lictor) is a species of passerine bird in the family Tyrannidae. It is the only species in the genus Philohydor. It is...
were not considered the Great Panathenaea, the festival was known as the Lesser Panathenaea. The festival consisted of various competitions and ceremonies...
Presiding Justice will speak on their behalf in open court. Magistrates' courts today can deal with lesser offences such as all summary offences, and some more...
(Healey) and placed in jail. Gorwald repeatedly requests a hearing before a magistrate judge, while the sheriff, Monty (Denton), and the deputy, Carly, discuss...
theory, is considered analogous in kind though lesser in degree to military power. The most important magistrates (such as consuls and praetors) are said to...
to the mainland. During the campaign for the 2014 county magistrate, all of the magistrate candidates spent their money on campaign materials produced...