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