Capitalization Examples
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- Presidential assistant, authority, order, proclamation, candidate, election, timber, year, etc.
- Prime Minister (see foreign cabinets)
- Prison, New Jersey State; the prison
- Privy Council, Her Majesty's (see Council)
- Prize, Nobel, Pulitzer, etc.; the prize
- Proclamation, Emancipation; Presidential Proclamation No. 24; Proclamation No. 24; the proclamation; but Presidential proclamation
- Program, if part of name:
- European Recovery
- Food for Peace
- Fulbright
- Head Start
- Mutual Defense Assistance
- Social Security
- but universal military training; government bailout
- Progressive Party; a Progressive
- Project:
- Gutenberg
- Manhattan
- Vote Smart
- Proposition 13
- Prosecutor; Special Prosecutor (Federal)
- Province, Provincial, if referring to an administrative subdivision: Ontario Province; Province of Ontario; Maritime Provinces (Canada); the Province
- Proving Ground, Aberdeen, etc.; the proving ground
- Public Law; Public Law 110-161, etc.
- Public Printer; the Government Printer; the Printer
- public utility district (see District)
- Pueblo, Santa Clara; the pueblo
- Purchase, Gadsden, Louisiana, etc.
- Puritan; puritanical
- Pyrrhic victory
- Q
- Quad Cities (Davenport, Rock Island, Moline, East Moline, and Bettendorf)
- query
- queue
- R
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- Railroad, Alaska; the Railroad
- Ranch, King, etc.; the ranch
- Range, Cascade, etc. (mountains); the range
- Rebellion, if part of name; the rebellion:
- Boxer
- Whisky
- Reconstruction period (post-Civil War)
- Red army
- Red Cross, American (see American)
- Reds, the; a Red (political)
- Reformatory, Michigan; the reformatory
- Refuge, Blackwater National Wildlife, etc.; Blackwater Refuge; the refuge
- region, north-central, etc.; first region, 10th region; region 7; midcontinent
- Regular Army, Navy; a Regular (see also officer)
- regulation:
- greenhouse gas
- W (see also Federal Reserve Board)
- but Veterans Entitlements Regulations
- religious terms:
- Baha'i
- Baptist
- Brahman
- Buddhist
- Catholic; Catholicism; but catholic (universal)
- Christian
- Christian Science
- Evangelical United Brethren
- Hindu; Hinduism
- Islam; Islamic
- Jewish
- Latter-day Saints
