Right of Magistrates
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The Right of Magistrates ((French) Du droit des magistrats, (Latin) De jure magistratuum) was a 1574 work written by Theodore Beza in 1574, and published anonymously, as a polemical contribution to the pamphlet literature of the French Wars of Religion.[1] It emphatically protested against French state tyranny in religious matters, and affirmed the resistance theory that it is legitimate for a people to oppose an unworthy magistracy in a practical manner and if necessary to use weapons and depose them.
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- ^ Tadataka Maruyama, The Ecclesiology of Theodore Beza: the reform of the true Church (1978), p. 60; Google Books.
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