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GCSE History · key term
An official who dealt with local legal cases and helped organise law enforcement.
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Paper 1
Revise: The Development of Law Enforcement and the PoliceMagistrates dealt with local legal cases and helped organise law enforcement. These roles continued into the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: professional policing did not sweep away older arrangements immediately.
Paper 2
An elected Roman public official who exercised governmental authority; consuls were the Republic’s leading magistrates.
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Even the number and titles of early annual magistrates are difficult to reconstruct securely.