People

Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation.

Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination.

The term People's Republic, used since late modernity, is a name used by states, which particularly identify constitutionally with a form of socialism.

[7] Four states — Massachusetts, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky — refer to themselves as the Commonwealth 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.