Magistracy Quotes

6 quotes by 5 authors

• An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which… — Thomas Jefferson
• The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements… — Alexander Hamilton
• To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is… — Edmund Burke
• In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same… — William Blackstone
• The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with… — Napoleon Bonaparte
• Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Who Wrote These Magistracy Quotes

5 authors contributed a total of 6 Magistracy Quotes as follows:

• 2 Magistracy Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte
• 1 Magistracy Quote by Thomas Jefferson
• 1 Magistracy Quote by Alexander Hamilton
• 1 Magistracy Quote by Edmund Burke
• 1 Magistracy Quote by William Blackstone