Friday 7 September 2012

Sovereign as a title - A head of state - natural person

Natural Person (Human Being)=RED
Legal Person-CORPORATION=GREEN
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Sovereign as a title
In some cases, the title "sovereign" is not just a generic term, but an actual (part of the) formal style of a Head of state.
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A head of state
A head of state is an official who holds the highest position in a governance system of the state and has the vested powers to act as the chief public representative of a country.  Heads of state in most countries are natural persons.  In some countries however the office of the head of state is held by a body of persons ("collective head of state").
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natural person
The role of the head of state generally includes *legitimizing the state and exercising the political powers, functions*, and duties* granted to the head of state in the country's constitution and laws.  
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In nation states the head of state is often thought of as the official "leader" of the nation.
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In jurisprudence, a natural person is a real human being, as opposed to a legal person, which may be a corporation or state.

In many cases, - fundamental human rights are implicitly granted only to natural persons -.  For example, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which states a person *cannot be denied the right to vote based on gender, or Section Fifteen of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms*, which guarantees equality rights, apply to natural persons only.  Another example of the distinction between natural and legal persons is that a natural person can hold public office, but a corporation cannot.  A corporation can, however, file a lawsuit or own property as a legal person.