Question 3: In addition, to avoid any ________, most communities with mayor's courts have magistrates preside over sessions, rather than the mayors themselves.
Question 7: In ________, the county magistrate elections are heavily and sometimes bitterly contested, and are often a stepping-stone to higher office.
Question 8: The term "magistrate" is often used (chiefly in judicial opinions) as a generic term for any independent judge who is capable of issuing warrants, reviewing ________, etc.
Question 9: In the post-colonial novel Waiting for the Barbarians by ________, the story is told from the narrative perspective of the magistrate of one of the settlements in what is presumed to be Africa.
Question 10: In ________, for example, the Constitution of 1971 created the office of magistrate to replace the use in cities and counties of the justice of the peace, which is common in many states for this function.