Curse a Leader

 Chinuch (Mishpatim # 71) Not to Curse a leader. It is from the roots of the commandment that it is because it is impossible for the settlement of people without their making one of them head over the others, to do his command and fulfill his decrees. As the opinions of people are different and they will never all agree to one opinion — to do one thing from among the many things. And from this, the result will be idleness and a cessation of actions. And therefore they need to accept the opinion of one of them — whether it is good or whether it is bad — so that they will be successful and be involved in the business of the world, sometimes finding great benefit from his will and counsel and sometimes finding the opposite. And all of this is better than disagreement which causes complete idleness. And since the one appointed as head is the cause for the benefit that we said — whether he is big in leading us in the ways of religion or whether he is big in the kingdom to guard a man from his neighbor that is more powerful than he — the matter is fitting and proper that we not treat his honor lightly, and also that we not curse him. We should not do this even not in front of him, and all the more so not in front of witnesses; as a bad habit that a person accustoms himself to do by himself will in the end become his action in public. And we have already [talked about] the great loss that comes because of disagreement.