Right of Magistrates

{{Short description|1574 work by Theodore Beza}}

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The Right of Magistrates ({{langx|fr|Du droit des magistrats}}; {{langx|la|De jure magistratuum}}) 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; [https://books.google.com/books?id=WSRNexJg7NEC&dq=du+droit+des+magistrats&pg=PA1 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; [https://books.google.com/books?id=ERc-_pLlvYkC&dq=%22Resistance+theory%22+Erastianism&pg=PA60 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.