0 the position of being a magistrate
I agree that properly accountable security forces of the right size to cope with a real threat, transparent financing and independent judiciaries and magistracies are all very important.
The "rex sacrorum" was explicitly deprived of military and political power, but the "pontifices" were permitted to hold both magistracies and military commands.
All magistracies and the tribunes of the plebs had resigned in advance.
His powers within the state seem to have rested upon these magistracies.
The magistracies were originally restricted to patricians, but were later opened to common people, or plebeians.
The traditional magistracies were only available to citizens of the senatorial class.
In subsequent years the powers of the king were divided among various elected magistracies.
Ouyang was a victim who was then demoted to a succession of magistracies in the provinces.
