Forms, Capitalization

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Capitis Diminution (meaning the diminishing of status through use of capitalization). In Roman law. A diminishing or abridgement of personality; a loss or curtailment of a man’s status or aggregate of legal attributes and qualifications. – Black’s Law, 4^th Ed., 1968 . Under Roman Civil Law status is everything. Under common law status is nothing. See Civil Law

Capitis Diminutio Media (meaning a medium loss of status through the use of capitalization, e.g. John DOE) – a lessor or medium loss of status. This occurred where a man loses his rights of citizenship, but without losing his liberty. It carried away also the family rights. – Black’s Law Dictionary 4^th Ed. , 1968

Capitis Diminutio Maxima (meaning a maximum loss of status through the use of capitalization, e.g. JOHN DOE). The highest or most comprehensive loss of status. This occurred when a man’s condition was changed from one of freedom to one of bondage, when he became a slave. It swept away with it all rights of citizenship and all family rights. – Black’s Law Dictionary 4^th Ed. , 1968

Whenever you are reading a particular law, including the U.S. Constitution, or a statute, the _Sovereign_ referenced in that law, who is usually the author of the law, is referenced in the law with the first letter of its name capitalized. For instance, in the U.S. Constitution the phrase “_We the People”, “_State”, and “_Citizen” are all capitalized, because these were the sovereign entities who were writing the document residing in the States. This document formed the federal government and gave it its authority. Subsequently, the federal government wrote statutes to implement the intent of the Constitution, and it became the Sovereign, but only in the context of those territories and lands ceded to it by the union states. When that federal government then refers in statutes to federal “States”, for instance in 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(10) or 4 U.S.C. §110(d), then these federal “States” are Sovereigns because they are part of the territory_ controlled by the Sovereign who wrote the statute, so they are capitalized. Foreign states referenced in the federal statutes then must be in lower case. The sovereign 50 union states, for example, must be in lower case in federal statutes because of this convention because they are foreign states. Capitalization is therefore always relative to who is writing the document, which is usually the Sovereign and is therefore capitalized. The exact same convention is used in the Bible, where all appellations of God are capitalized because they are sovereigns: “_Jesus" ”, “_God”, “_Him”, “_His”, “_Father”. These words aren’t capitalized because they are proper names, but because the entity described is a sovereign or an agent or part of the sovereign_. The only exception to this capitalization rule is in state revenue laws, where the state legislators use the _same capitalization_ as the Internal Revenue Code for “State” in referring to federal enclaves within their territory because they want to scam money out of you. In state revenue laws, for instance in the California Revenue and Taxation Code (R&TC) sections 17018 and 6017, “State” means a federal State within the boundaries of California and described as part of the Buck Act of 1940 found in 4 U.S.C. §§105-113.