Sentence examples for their magistrates from inspiring English sources

While the 2nd century was a time of heated competition among senators, it was generally a period of quiescence of the plebs and their magistrates, the tribunes.

When the Romans recaptured the city in 211 bc, they deprived its citizens of political rights and replaced their magistrates with Roman prefects.

Through his use of the media, and with no base other than his own insistent word, Mr Berlusconi has caused a large number of Italians to distrust their magistrates and to believe that they have a programme to assault him.

Critical of limiting suffrage to male church members with property, Hooker sought a more-universal suffrage and told the Connecticut General Court in 1638 that the people had the God-given right to choose their magistrates.

"And if their police or their courts or their magistrates touch me or interfere with me then it will be an act of slavery and crimes against the tribe".

"The burghers tax themselves, elect their magistrates, judge and punish, and assemble for the purpose of deliberating upon their affairs...In a word they govern themselves; they are sovereigns". Along similar lines, it would be interesting to wonder how a Victorian civic elder would cope in the current dirigiste environment.

They also served as their magistrate's house guard.

Lictors carried the fasces for their magistrate and were constantly in his attendance in public; they cleared his way in crowds and summoned and punished offenders for him.

Before the revolution we were all good English Whigs, cordial in their free principles, and in their jealousies of their executive Magistrate.

In most cases, the Etruscan cities and their territories preserved a formal autonomy as independent states with their own magistrates, thus passing an uneventful period in the 2nd century bce, when the sources are largely silent about Etruria.

Royal charters (fueros) set down the rights and obligations of the settlers and allowed them to choose their own magistrates (alcaldes) and to govern themselves.