
Citations outside the jurisdictions in question usually substitute the name of the state for the words "the People" in the case captions. states, including California, Illinois, and New York, use this style.

In criminal law, in certain jurisdictions, criminal prosecutions are brought in the name of the People. The term People's Republic, used since late modernity, is a name used by states, which particularly identify constitutionally with a form of socialism. This term was fixed abbreviated (SPQR) to Roman legionary standards, and even after the Roman Emperors achieved a state of total personal autocracy, they continued to wield their power in the name of the Senate and People of Rome. shared culture etc.).īoth the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire used the Latin term Senatus Populusque Romanus, (the Senate and People of Rome). Particularly through international Indigenous peoples rights, it was defined what a people constitutes (e.g.

Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples ( peoples, as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in indigenous people), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. See also: Popular sovereignty Liberty Leading the People, 1830 by Eugène DelacroixĬhapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination.
