Robert Barclay

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.

Scottish Writer

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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.

British Poet

David Lidington

I want to see prison numbers come down. We need better custody that cuts reoffending and crime. And we need to ensure judges, magistrates and the public have full confidence in the other penalties available.

British Politician

Fiona Bruce

There are a million and one things I'd love to get stuck into. Travel, finally getting to spend some time with the family. And I'd love to become a magistrate.

British Journalist

Anthony Holden

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?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Roman Statesman

Solon

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Greek Statesman

Grover Cleveland

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

American President

Bertrand Russell

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

British Philosopher

Gouverneur Morris

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

American Statesman

Magistrates have the power to enforce the law and issue punishments or orders.

Legal Authority

Magistrates typically work in local courts, handling minor legal cases such as traffic violations.

Local Jurisdiction

A magistrate deals with less serious offenses, not high-profile criminal cases.

Lesser Offenses

The term 'magistrate' originates from officials in ancient Rome with varying levels of power.

Ancient Rome

In Rome, magistrates were concerned with public order, much like today's police officers.

Public Order

Some Roman magistrates had judicial, administrative, and military duties.

Multiple Roles

 even wants he called a food riot where there were a group of people who are holding on to the food and they were threatening the town magistrate who was thank God a Polonius is here can you do something can you say something and of course a

The Ragged Edge of...

 His grandfather was a magistrate, an elderly man. He'd had cataract surgery. His vision was pretty poor. And in 1759, he described to his grandson various things he was seeing. The first thing he said was he saw a handkerchief in midair.

What hallucination...

 in addition to hundreds of jurors and magistrates to handle legal matters. Rather than being elected or appointed, the people in these positions were chosen by lot. This process of randomized selection is know as sortition.