magistracy
Noun
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The office or dignity of a magistrate.
The collective body of magistrates.
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Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.
He that buyeth magistracy will seek justice.
From November 2014 to July 2016 he was a member of the Council of the Magistracy of the Nation.
Now he decided to assume the full powers of the magistracy, renewed annually, in perpetuity.
Ritchie, pp. 106–110 Bligh also dismissed Thomas Jamison from the magistracy, citation describing him in 1807 as being "inimical" to good government.
Other uses in antiquity Other city states While many cities (as in Gaul) had a double-headed chief magistracy, often another title was used, such as Duumvir or native styles such as Meddix, but Consul was used in some.