The Right of Magistrates (; ) is a 1574 work written by Theodore Beza, and anonymously "published by those from Magdeburg of 1550",Du droit des magistrats sur leurs subiets (1574), p. 1; Google Books. as a polemical contribution to the pamphlet literature of the French Wars of Religion.Tadataka Maruyama, The Ecclesiology of Theodore Beza: the reform of the true Church (1978), p. 60; Google Books. 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.
See also Lesser magistrate
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