Magistrature

The term magistrature indicates several types of mandates.

A political power and judicaire

In the Antiquity, a magistrature was a load attached to a decision-making power having authority on the commun run. She was exerted during a very short mandate (six months or a year) and was only seldom renewable.

In Greece

In the Antiquité only the citizens could vote by a show of hands to élir a magistrate. The women could not vote.

In Rome

List Roman magistratures:

  • the Consul At;
  • the Préture;
  • the Quaestorship;
  • the municipal administration.

A career including/understanding a progression of a magistrature towards higher was called the Cursus honorum .

With the Middle Ages

Municipal administration relates to with the Middle Ages the assumption of responsibility of the majority of the tasks normally entrusted to the lord with a magistrature or groups magistrates, for example: ditches and ramparts, the state of the streets and the houses.

In San Marino

The separation of the capacities

In France

The Prefect S and the Maire S are not magistrates exerting an political authority. They hold the executive power. In France, only the pupils leaving the National school of the magistrature are magistrates in a strict sense term.

The Juge S exert a judicial power.

See too

Internal bonds

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