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...
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practical manner and if necessary to use weapons and depose them. Lesser magistrate Du droit des magistrats sur leurs subiets (1574), p. 1; Google Books...
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proceeding only from the top down, hence the need for a lesser magistrate to become the new top magistrate. Over the 20th and 21st centuries, some Lutheran bodies...
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V in a multi-step legal formula now known as the doctrine of the lesser magistrate. Historian David Armitage has argued that the Declaration was strongly...
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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...
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had to be fulfilled before an evil ruler could be resisted by the lesser magistrates. The concept of just rebellion that the term Beerwolf introduced was...
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resistance against a Beerwolf ruler, which was used in the doctrine of the lesser magistrate propounded in the 1550 Magdeburg Confession. In Leviathan (1651),...
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separation of church and state. The Calvinist and Lutheran doctrine of the lesser magistrate contributed to resistance theory in the Early Modern period and was...
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discredited. Sherman Booth, an example interposition from Wisconsin Lesser magistrate 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 Lesser Magistrates" stating that counties should have the power to nullify state laws...
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