Talk:Secretary of state

message: I have added currently to UK DPM entry. The SoS is not automatic and the article appeared perhaps to imply that.Alci12 12:28, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Of course, "currently" meant "as of 2006"; those who know more may want to update my corrective edit.--Jerzy•t 03:16, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dep. PM 

message: The Nigerian case discusses the phenomenon foreign minister, not secretary of state, it should be moved. --C mon 20:24, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nigeria 

message: A Secretary of State for.... is a "political head of a ministerial department" in a presidential system (head of state and gouvernemtn leader are the same person) 
or a system the gouvermental leader only is responsible to the parliament and not the mebers of the gouvernment called just secretaries of state and not ministers.
A state secretary is the most senior offical by career (even it is a political appointment) in a ministry within a parliamentarian system —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.183.212.184 (talk) 19:34, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Secretary of State vs. State Secretary 

message: It appears "Secretary of the State" is used at least occasionally in state documents, outside of CT: i found LA & Tenn. examples, but it's hard to search (e.g. there's "Secretary of the State XYZ Board"), and a different problem to find the definitive sources for 46 remaining states. CT is very clear -- even the domain is sots.ct.gov, and it's -- but i can't rule out there being other states where the "the" is also official. Consider checking your state's constitution & SoS main page, and adding a notation to the following list. --Jerzy•t 03:16, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Variant titles in U.S. states 

message: I urge that the Republic of South Africa and Orange Free State entries be removed from this page. They are completely historial and unimportant in the current world for understanding the concept of a secretary of state. If it is necessary to discuss the structure of these historical govts, it should be done on their respective pages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.3.129.165 (talk) 21:23, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Volkstaat? 

message: This does not accord with legal action being routinely addressed against a specified SoS and the standard interpretation appearing to be in the nature of "whoever is the appropriate SoS for any particular matter addressed in legislation which involves a SoS". Schedule 1 of the Interpretation Act 1978 also implies that there is no single "Secretary of State" - " "Secretary of State" means one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State".
The existence of only one SoS seems to be a past matter which has not applied for many years.
--MBRZ48 (talk) 22:13, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  United Kingdom - "there is in theory only one office of Secretary of State" 

message: This article is a muddle: it does not know if it is about offices named "Secretary of State" offices whose name (even when not in English) looks in some way like the name "Secretary of State", or about offices with particular functions. For example the office of "Secrétaire d'État" in France is quite different from that of "Secretary of State" in the UK, or the office, different again, of "Secretary of State" in the USA (though the name looks similar). I suggest the article be deleted as incoherent and unhelpful. Diomedea Exulans (talk) 14:57, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Form and substance