Judge/Magistrate Salaries. How much does a Judge/Magistrate make? The median annual Judge/Magistrate salary is $158,008, as of March 31, 2017, with a range usually between $154,989-$176,828, however this can vary widely depending on a variety of factors.
On Aquinasâs view, a law is âa rule or measure of human acts, whereby a person is induced to act or is restrained from actingâ (ST IaIIae 90.1). Elsewhere, he describes a law as a âdictate of practical reason emanating from a rulerâ (ST IaIIae 91.1).
But the happiness at which the law must be directed is not the happiness of any particular individual or privileged group (such as the rulers), but the happiness of the whole as the perfect community. The insistence that law must be aimed at the common good serves a number of purposes in Aquinas's theory of law.