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	tions, acquired special significance as designations for parties, classes, movements, etc. (see 9): Protestant League, Holy Alliance, Dreibund; the Roses, the Roundheads, Independents, Independency (English history), Nonconformist, Dissenter, Separatist.
17.	Conventions, congresses, expositions, etc.: Council of Nicaea, Parliament of Religions, Fifteenth International Congress of Criminology, Westminster Assembly, Chicago World's Fair, Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
18.	Titles of specific treaties, acts, laws (juridical), bills, etc.: Treaty of Verdun, Art. V of the Peace of Prague, Edict of Nantes, Concordat, the Constitution (of the United States, when standing alone, or when referred to as a literary document; but not usually that of any other state or country, e.g., the constitution of Illinois), Declaration of Independence, Act of Emancipation, Magna C(h)arta, Corn Law, Reform Bill (English), Fourteenth Amendment.
19	Creeds and confessions of faith: Apostles' Creed, Nicene Creed (but: ante-Nicene—see 203, 208), Augsburg Confession, Thirty-nine Articles.
20.	Civic and ecclesiastical feast-days: Fourth of July (the Fourth), Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day; Easter, Passover, Feast of Tabemades, New Year's Day (but: sabbath = day of rest).
21.	Titles, civil and military, preceding the name, and academic degrees, in abbreviated form, following the name; all titles of honor or of nobility, when referring to specific persons, either with the name