Right of Magistrates
Template:Short description Template:Italic title The Right of Magistrates (Template:Langx; Template:Langx) is a 1574 work written by Theodore Beza, and anonymously "published by those from Magdeburg of 1550",<ref>Du droit des magistrats sur leurs subiets (1574), p. 1; Google Books.</ref> as a polemical contribution to the pamphlet literature of the French Wars of Religion.<ref>Tadataka Maruyama, The Ecclesiology of Theodore Beza: the reform of the true Church (1978), p. 60; Google Books.</ref> 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.