In 474 Julius Nepos, the Byzantine supreme magistrate in Italy, proclaimed himself emperor; a year later Orestes, commander of Nepos's barbarian troops, deposed him and caused the troops to acclaim the 14-year-old Romulus emperor.
By law and by reason, the people of England must be Anglican, pledged to serve Elizabeth as the supreme magistrate of the country and the supreme governor of the church.
In Hellenistic Greece the strategi became supreme magistrates in most federations and leagues (e.g., the Achaean and Aetolian).
This is imaginative, sensible, and perhaps the only way to resolve this central part of the confrontation in the Middle East.This would presumably mean that sovereignty would reside with a trio of representatives of the three faiths, perhaps entitled consuls in the ancient sense of supreme magistrates.
Together with dominant figures from five guilds of lesser status (the arti medie, or middle guilds, consisting of the butchers, the shoemakers, the smiths, the stonemasons, and the secondhand dealers), the popolo gathered every two months to elect six priors who ruled Florence as supreme magistrates.
The US state department did not name the four, but a Honduran official said they included the supreme court magistrate who ordered the arrest of the ousted Manuel Zelaya and the president of the country's congress.
Credited with turning the country around through tough security policies during his two terms as president from 2002 to 2010, Uribe is still wildly popular despite serious questions about his government's human rights record and a spying scandal involving his intelligence service tapping the phones of supreme court magistrates, journalists and opposition politicians.
Ministers will be responsible for ensuring all appointments meet the new requirements, which will apply to all paid government boards and the supreme, county and magistrates courts.
By late Republican times its importance had dwindled, and its chief functions were simply to confer the imperium (supreme executive power) on magistrates and to witness wills, adoptions, and the inauguration of priests.
Though unable to take the field because of illness, he jealously preserved royal power through the royal council, the Audiencia (supreme court), and the corregidores (magistrates).
To triumph in republican times a man was required to have been a magistrate cum imperio (holding supreme and independent command) who had won a major land or sea battle in the region considered his province, killing at least 5,000 of the enemy and ending the war.
