Talk:Letter of credence

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Please stop moving this page to Letter of credence (sic). Lowercasing it like that is as illiterate as writing Queen elizabeth ii or President of the united states. Wikipedia correctly lowercases things that belong in lowercase but there are names, titles, formal references, proper nouns, etc that have to be uppercased. If you lowercase Letter of Credence you get something that actually means something totally different. Uppercased it means formal letters between heads of state accrediting diplomats. Lowercased it means simply an accreditation letter, which could be to the bank, an employer or whomever. It is the same when people lowercase advice everywhere even though it is uppercased for a reason - Advice = binding instruction from a government to a head of state, whereas advice means simply advice from anyone to anyone else about anything which they don't have to obey if they don't want to. Casing in diplomatic and constitutional topics is done for a reason. Please stop screwing up articles on constitutional and legal topics if you don't know what you are doing. Things are uppercased for a reason not because whomever wrote it just felt like it. FearÉIREANN 01:31, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] A bit Commonwealth-centric

The current article seems to assume that all states issue and accept Letters of Credence on behalf of the head of state but on advice of the government, which is not universally true. For example, the King of Jordan does both of his own accord, not on advice of his National Assembly; the President of the United States, meanwhile, takes the (binding) advice of the Senate when issuing a Letter of Credence, but whether to accept one from a foreign state or not is solely his decision. --Delirium 08:43, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

The article does refer to "parliamentary democracies" in the paragraph to which you refer in order to distinguish these Heads of State from Heads of State who exercise authority in their own right.--Visagrunt 22:31, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Diplomatic Immunity

The article is incorrect with respect to diplomatic immunity. The conferral of immunity is a matter of the municipal law of the Receiving State (and so it varies from State to State). However, the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations sets out in Article 39 that a diplomatic agent is entitled to privileges and immunities from, "the moment he enters the territory of the receiving State" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Visagrunt (talk • contribs) 22:47, 11 October 2007 (UTC)