Sentence examples for all magistrates from inspiring English sources

It voted on war and peace and elected all magistrates who exercised imperium (consuls, praetors, censors, and curule aediles).

A similar survey a year ago found less than half of all magistrates saying self-representation was a concern.

If "use force to promote the true religion" were a command of natural law addressed to all magistrates, it would not promote the true religion in practice because so many magistrates wrongly believe that their religion is the true one.

All magistrates also had the power of coercion.

All magistrates had the power of coercion (coercitio), which was used by magistrates to maintain public order.

Since his absence from Rome would limit his ability to install his own consuls, he passed a law which allowed him to appoint all magistrates in 43 BC, and all consuls and Plebeian Tribunes in 42 BC.

They bestowed Latin rights on all Spain, which meant that all city magistrates obtained Roman citizenship, with consequent profit to the imperial treasury; and no doubt Roman citizenship was granted liberally elsewhere.

In addition to their judicial duties, all these magistrates had increasing administrative functions.

The centuriate assembly was military in nature; it voted on war and peace and elected all those magistrates who exercised imperium (military power).

That made him effectively a king, superior to all other magistrates and not subject to their veto or appeal, and in that context the idea of tyranny began to be discussed by historians and philosophers.

The most architecturally striking buildings are the handiest of all: the magistrates court for minor misunderstandings, and the coroner's court for when he's caught in bed with the nanny and/or team-mate's wife.