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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

resistance against a Beerwolf ruler, which was used in the doctrine of the lesser magistrate propounded in the 1550 Magdeburg Confession. In Leviathan (1651),...

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...

discredited. Sherman Booth, an example interposition from Wisconsin Lesser magistrate Bush v. Orleans Parish School Board, 188 F. Supp. 916 (E.D. La. 1960)...

Christian nationalist militia activists to endorse a "Doctrine of Lesser Magistrates" stating that counties should have the power to nullify state laws...