2024-01-31 09:45:15
Depending on what is being referred to, the word state It is written with a capital letter or with a small initial letter. Below are some tips for the proper use of capital letters in this term.
1. Writing with capital letters
• When refers to a ‘sovereign country’recognized as such in the international order, settled in a specific territory and endowed with its own governing bodies’ or ‘the set of powers and governing bodies of a sovereign country’, as stated in the academic dictionary. In this way, it is written with a capital letter in constructions such as Rule of law, head of state, coup, Chilean state, man o state woman, state lawyer o state secret. Applies also the capital letter when used in plural: “The States agreed to a truce.”
• When it is part of the names of entities or institutions: Mayor state, Central General Staff, General Staff…
2. Writing with lower case
• When referring to a non-independent political entitysuch as the territories that make up a federal State: the state of oklahoma.
• In cases where equivalent to ‘situation’as occurs in expressions like state of the matter, state of emergency, state of alarm, Exception status, Site status o state of war.
See also
➤ state of well-being
➤ governmentupper case and lower case
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