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“King is a title which translated into several languages, signifies a magistrate with as many different degrees of power as there are kingdoms in the world, and he can have no power but what is given him by law; yea, even the supreme or legislative power is bound by the rules of equity, to govern by laws enacted, and published in due form; for what is not legal is arbitrary.”

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Book:A Supplement to the Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot

Source: A Supplement to the Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot

“There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.”

People States Law Church Kings Equal Graves Bishops Selected Framed Magistrates

Book:The Works of Rufus Choate, with a Memoir of His Life: Memoir. Lectures and addresses

Source: The Works of Rufus Choate, with a Memoir of His Life: Memoir. Lectures and addresses

“It depends on the consent of the people to decide whether kings or consuls or other magistrates are to be established in authority over them, and if there is legitimate cause, the people can change a kingdom into an aristocracy, or an aristocracy into a democracy, and vice versa, as we read was done in Rome.”

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Author:Robert Bellarmine

“A king is the first servant and first magistrate of the state.”

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Author:Frederick The Great

“One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a magistrate; but he must die a man. The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality, to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations - the relations between the creature and his Creator.”

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Book:THE WORKS OF DANIEL WEBSTER; VOLUME II

Source: THE WORKS OF DANIEL WEBSTER; VOLUME II

“If Aristotle, Livy, and Harrington knew what a republic was, the British constitution is much more like a republic than an empire. They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men. If this definition is just, the British constitution is nothing more or less than a republic, in which the king is first magistrate. This office being hereditary, and being possessed of such ample and splendid prerogatives, is no objection to the government's being a republic, as long as it is bound by fixed laws, which the people have a voice in making, and a right to defend.”

Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I

“Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.”

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Author:Roger Williams

“It is impossible not to bestow the imputation of deliberate imposture and deception upon the gross pretense of a similitude between a king of Great Britain and a magistrate of the character marked out for that of the President of the United States. It is still more impossible to withhold that imputation from the rash and barefaced expedients which have been employed to give success to the attempted imposition.”

Giving Has Beens Stills States Character President United United States Impossible Kings Deception Britain Employed Gross Deliberate Pretense Great Britain Magistrates Imposition

Author:Alexander Hamilton