As with the national flags, there are three varieties: the civil ensign ( 23px ), flown by private vessels ; state ensigns ( also called government ensigns ; 23px ), flown by government ships ; and war ensigns ( also called naval ensigns ; 23px ), flown by naval vessels.

Most countries do not have a separate state ensign, although the United Kingdom is a rare exception, in having a red ensign for civil use, a white ensign as its naval ensign, and a blue ensign for government non-military vessels.

The current flag of South Australia was adopted on 13 January 1904, and is a British blue ensign defaced with the state badge.

Although inspired in the National flag, the yacht ensign is not always corresponding with the civil or merchant ensign of the state in question.

The square-cut Swedish state flag is identical to the civil ensign.

Early state flag and war ensign, used until the mid-1600s.

A Royal warrant of November 6, 1663, regulated the use of the triple-tailed flag, to be used only as a state flag and military ensign.

In practice, however, the merchant fleet began using a square-cut civil ensign of the state flag.

In a government instruction of ship building of 1730, this civil ensign should have the same proportions and colours as the state flag, with the notable difference of being square-cut.

The Swedish state flag became identical to the square-cut civil ensign, and all private use of the triple-tailed flag was prohibited.

The shield was incorporated into the centre of the fly half of a British Blue Ensign as the state ensign of the colony.

The national ensign of San Marino is identical to the state flag.

The civil and state ensign for ships has the same design as the national flag, but a different shape ( 2: 3 instead of 1: 2 ).

: 23x15px state ensign – Flown on unarmed government vessels.

Loyalist to take up land here on the site of Brockville was William Buell Sr. ( 1751 – 1832 ), an ensign disbanded from the King's Rangers, from the state of New York.

Commissioned Officers ( O-1 through O-10 second lieutenant or ensign through general or admiral, and W-2 through W-5 ( chief warrant officers )) are commissioned under the authority of the President of the United States with the advice and consent of the United States Senate, Warrant Officers ( WO-1 ) are given a warrant under the authority of their respective Service Secretary ( e. g. Secretary of the Army ), National Guard officers are additionally committed to the authority of the governor of their state.

Additionally, the ratios of the country's flags were set to 7: 10 for the state flag and 18: 25 for the state and naval ensign by a decree dated 3 June 1833.

In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.

Author of the Albany Plan Of Union, which, had it been adopted, might have avoided the Revolution, he fought the colonists' front-line battles in London, negotiated the treaty of alliance with France and the peace that ended the war, headed the state government of Pennsylvania, and exercised an important moderating influence at the Federal Convention.

`` We the people of the Confederate States, each state acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity -- invoking the favor and the guidance of Almighty God -- do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America ''.

Strikes should be declared illegal against corporations because disagreements would have to be settled by government representatives acting as controllers of the corporation whose responsibility to the state would now be defined against proprietorship because employees and proprietors must be completely interdependent, as they are each a part of the whole.

Long-range planning of programs and ways to finance them have become musts if the state in the next few years is to avoid crisis-to-crisis government.

The peddler came bawling his wares and told them of the convention in Wheeling, Which had formed a new state government by declaring the government at Richmond in the east illegal because they were traitors.

In 1951 the pool's operation was transferred to the newly-created Department of Administration, an agency established as the central staff and auxiliary department of the state government.

There was a time some years ago when local taxation by the cities and towns was sufficient to support their own operations and a part of the cost of the state government as well.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the state government has little or no fiscal control over these units of government.

Both units of government contribute increasingly large sums of money to the several local governments in this state as indicated below:

Throughout the history of the program, state government expenditures in the aggregate have usually matched or exceeded the Federal expenditures, while local districts all together have spent more than either Federal or state governments.

With the expansion of family formation in the Sixties, a continued substantial rise in expenditures by state and local government units seems to be indicated.

This is largely because of the unpredictability of the man who operates the helm of the state government and is the elected leader of its two million inhabitants -- Gov. Ross Barnett.

But it might give way shortly to another vexing issue -- that of finances in state government.

The conversion to magnetic tape is not yet completed, he said, and added Field's long service in state government and welfare employ gave him familiarity with the welfare program.

Nevertheless, in 1861, Lincoln justified the war in terms of legalisms ( the Constitution was a contract, and for one party to get out of a contract all the other parties had to agree ), and then in terms of the national duty to guarantee a republican form of government in every state.

The Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act, also signed in 1862, provided government grants for agricultural colleges in each state.

Since the adoption of a new constitution, early in 2010, the politics of Angola takes place in a framework of a presidential republic, whereby the President of Angola is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system.

* The members of the government ( state ministers, ministers, state secretaries and vice-ministers );

Though the prison chaplain accuses the state of stripping Alex of free will, the government officials on the scene are pleased with the results and Alex is released into society.

Alexander, a critic of the government, hopes to use Alex as a symbol of state brutality and thereby prevent the incumbent government from being re-elected.

# In contemporary usage, dictatorship refers to an autocratic form of absolute rule by leadership unrestricted by law, constitutions, or other social and political factors within the state.

In common language usage, " fruit " normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of a plant that are sweet and edible in the raw state, such as apples, oranges, grapes, strawberries, and bananas.

It is increasingly seen as a fully-fledged language, since it is taught in state schools and has some limited usage on public radio and television.

The military lifestyle influenced all the actions, structure and hierarchy of the Montoneros, including salutes, uniforms and a constant usage of military slang, even in circumstances where such things were uncalled for ( such as the state funeral of Juan Perón ).

Because phase boundaries relate to changes in the organization of matter, such as a change from liquid to solid or a more subtle change from one crystal structure to another, this latter usage is similar to the use of " phase " as a synonym for state of matter.

It is increasingly seen as a fully-fledged language, as it is taught in state schools and has some limited usage on public radio and television.

As of 2008, English-language official Chinese state media no longer uses the term " People's Liberation Army Navy ", instead the term " Chinese Navy " along with the usage of the prefix " CNS " for " Chinese Navy Ship " is now employed.

In this usage, Scroll Lock is a toggling lock key like Num Lock or Caps Lock, which have a state that persists after the key is released.

While the most common modern usage of the word terrorism refers to civilian-victimizing political violence by insurgents or conspirators, several scholars make a broader interpretation of the nature of terrorism that encompasses the concepts of state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism.

Gun usage in hunting is typically regulated by game category, area within the state, and time period.

In fact, the name " Al-Urdun " ( Jordan ) was used on Umayyad post-reform copper coins beginning in the early 8th century and represent the earliest official usage of the name for the modern state.

Because the definition of a state of " war " may be debated, the term " war crime " itself has seen different usage under different systems of international and military law.

Bishops are usually drawn from the ranks of the archimandrites, and are required to be celibate ; however, a non-monastic priest may be ordained to the episcopate if he no longer lives with his wife ( following Canon XII of the Quinisext Council ) In contemporary usage such a non-monastic priest is usually tonsured to the monastic state, and then elevated to archimandrite, at some point prior to his consecration to the episcopacy.

These neighbors will be re-evaluated for possible usage if the router transitions to Active state for that destination.

In 1810 Alexander von Humboldt originated the modern usage of " Aztec " as a collective term applied to all the people linked by trade, custom, religion, and language to the Mexica state and the Triple Alliance.

In the United States, a conservation easement ( also called a conservation covenant or conservation restriction ) is an encumbrance — sometimes including a transfer of usage rights ( easement )— which creates a legally enforceable land preservation agreement between a landowner and a government agency ( municipality, county, state, federal ) or a qualified land protection organization ( often called a " land trust "), for the purposes of conservation.

These differences in usage are criticized on two grounds: one, that they reflect a biased state of society, and two, that they help to uphold that state.

The term " state of the art " was first used in literary work and over time its usage increased in all fields where art has a significant role.

The reasons for this are various, but among the nations that use the Golden Eagle as or in a state symbol, there are two clear traditions that help explain the modern usage.

In 1927, about 24 years after the Trenton and New Brunswick Turnpike was revert to the state for future usage, the New Jersey State Highway Department designated the entire alignment from the Trenton-Morrisville Bridge in Trenton to the area around the Mile Run Brook in New Brunswick as a part of State Highway Route 26.

The modern usage of " ethnic group " further came to reflect the different kinds of encounters industrialised states have had with external groups, such as immigrants and indigenous peoples ; " ethnic " thus came to stand in opposition to " national ", to refer to people with distinct cultural identities who, through migration or conquest, had become subject to a state or " nation " with a different cultural mainstream.

Originally named Schleisingerville after the founder, state senator Baruch Schleisinger ( Weil ) in 1857, it was shortened during the 1920s to Slinger, a nickname which was already in common usage by the area residents.

Reviewing its uses in scholarly literature, historian Werner Bergmann proposes that pogroms be " defined as a unilateral, nongovernmental form of collective violence initiated by the majority population against a largely defenseless ethnic group, and occurring when the majority expect the state to provide them with no assistance in overcoming a ( perceived ) threat from the minority ," but adds that in western usage, the word's " anti-Semitic overtones " have been retained.