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The English noun people
has two distinct fields of application:
- as a countable noun, a group of humans, either with unspecified traits, or specific characteristics (e.g. the people of Spain or the people of the Plains).
- as a mass noun, people
is the suppletive plural of person
. However, the word persons
is sometimes used in place of people
, especially when it would be ambiguous with its collective sense (e.g. missing persons
instead of missing people
). It can collectively refer to all humans or it can be used to identify a certain ethnic or religious group. For example, "people of color" is a phrase used in North America to describe non-whites. [1]
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In philosophy and theory
The concept of
personhood (who is a person within a society) is the fundamental component of any selective concept of people. A distinction is maintained in
philosophy and
law between the notions "human being", or "man", and "person". The former refers to the species, while the latter refers to a rational agent (see, for example,
John Locke's
Essay concerning Human Understanding
II 27 and
Immanuel Kant's
Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals
). Central issues of interest to people are the understanding of the
human condition and the
meaning of life, and
survival.
Religion,
philosophy, and
science show or represent modes and aspects of inquiry which attempt to investigate and understand the nature, behavior, and
purpose of people.
Sociology,
economics, and
politics represent modes by which people investigate how to maximize a collective survival strategy.
Islam recognizes the
People of the Book as members of
monotheistic faiths founded upon
revelation related to its own faith. By contrast, in
Judaism, the
Jews are often said to be the
chosen people, a concept modified by the
Christian doctrine of
the Elect
.
In politics
right
by
Eugène Delacroix
Various
republics govern, or claim to govern, in the name of
the people
. Both the
Roman Republic and the
Roman Empire used the
Latin term
Senatus Populusque Romanus
, (the Senate and People of Rome). This term was fixed to Roman legionary standards, and even after the
Roman Emperors achieved a state of total personal
autarchy, they continued to wield their power in the name of the Senate and People of Rome. A
People's Republic is typically a
Marxist or
socialist one-party state that claims to govern on behalf of the people.
Populism is another umbrella term for various political tendencies that claim to represent the people, usually with an implication that they serve the
common people
instead of the
elite.
In law
In
criminal law, in certain jurisdictions, criminal prosecutions are brought in the name of
the People
. Several U.S. states, including
California,
Illinois, and
New York, use this style.
[2] Citations outside the jurisdictions in question usually substitute the name of the state for the words "the People" in the case captions.
[3] Four states —
Massachusetts,
Virginia,
Pennsylvania, and
Kentucky — refer to themselves as
the Commonwealth
in case captions and legal process.
[4] Other states, such as
Indiana, typically refer to themselves as
the State
in case captions and legal process. The political theory underlying this format is that criminal prosecutions are brought in the name of the
sovereign; thus, in these
U.S. states, the "people" are judged to be the sovereign, even as in the
United Kingdom and other dependencies of the
British Crown, criminal prosecutions are typically brought in the name of
the Crown. "The people" identifies the entire body of the
citizens of a jurisdiction invested with political power or gathered for political purposes.
[5]
See also
- Ethnic group
- Lists of people
- Nationality
- Person
- Tribe
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