Talk:Secretary of State

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[edit] Secretary of State vs. State Secretary

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)


[edit] Older comments

I want to disambiguate this page.

In the UK the Secretary of State is the chief minister in a particular government department. Thus we have -

I know that the US has the United States Secretary of State who is the equivalent of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in the UK. I have also just found out that each US state has a Secretary of State, but I have no idea what the remit and powers of this office is. Can someone enlighten me?

Mintguy

Bump Mintguy

AFAIK, the two main duties of a state's Secretary of State are supervising elections and licensing corporations and professionals (details vary from state to state).

--Mrwojo 01:27 Dec 24, 2002 (UTC)


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)


[edit] Nigeria

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

As no one seemed to object, this has been done. Camhusmj38 19:21, 30 September 2006 (UTC)