Information about Bailiwick Of Jersey

State of New Jersey

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Nickname(s): Garden State^[1]
Motto(s): Liberty and prosperity

Official language(s) English de facto

Capital Trenton

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Jersey may refer to:

• Jersey, one of the Channel Islands and a British Crown dependency
• New Jersey, an eastern U.S. state named after the island and sometimes shortened to "Jersey"
• Jersey City, New Jersey
• HMS Jersey, several British Royal Navy ships

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"Ma Normandie" is the anthem of the Bailiwick of Jersey, a British Crown dependency in the Channel Islands, and was written and composed by Frédéric Bérat. Jersey is historically part of the Duchy of Normandy, and French has been for centuries an official administrative language of
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capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has a second meaning based on an alternative sense of "capital") is the center of government.
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The following statistics describe the Bailiwick of Jersey, a British Crown dependency^[1] off the coast of Normandy, France.^[2]

Population: 87,186 (2001 census) (88,200 - 2006 est.
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Saint Helier (Jèrriais: St Hélyi) is one of the twelve parishes, and the largest town in Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel. It has a population of about 28,000, and is the capital of the Island (although Government House is situated in St. Saviour).
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Writing system: Latin (English variant) 
Official status
Official language of: 53 countries
Regulated by: no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1: en
ISO 639-2: eng
ISO 639-3: eng  
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French (français, pronounced [fʁɑ̃ˈsɛ]) is a Romance language originally spoken in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Switzerland, and today by about 300 million people around the world as either
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Jèrriais is the form of the Norman language spoken in Jersey, in the Channel Islands. It has been in decline over the past century as English has increasingly become the language of education, commerce and administration.
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government is a body that has the power to make and the authority to enforce rules and laws within a civil, corporate, religious, academic, or other organization or group.^[1]
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red and orange—the former being constitutional monarchies where authority is vested in a parliament, and the latter being parliamentary republics whose parliaments are effectively supreme over a separate head of state.
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Crown dependencies are possessions of The Crown in Right of the United Kingdom, as opposed to overseas territories or colonies of the United Kingdom. They comprise the Channel Island bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey and the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea.
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Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary;<ref name="sur" /> born 21 April 1926) is the Queen regnant of sixteen independent states and their overseas territories and dependencies.
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Lieutenant Governor of Jersey is the representative of the British monarch in the Bailiwick of Jersey, a Crown dependency of the British Crown. The role of the Lieutenant Governor is to act as the de facto head of state in Jersey.
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Lieutenant General Andrew Peter Ridgway, CB, CBE, became Lieutenant Governor of Jersey from 14 June 2006 after a long military career. He was born in 1950, educated at Hele's School, Exeter, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and St John's College, Cambridge.
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This is a list of bailiffs of Jersey.

In 1290, separate bailiffs for Guernsey and Jersey were appointed.

The list of bailiffs is only reliably traceable from Philippe L’Evesque’s appointment in 1277, although earlier bailiffs are mentioned and the office
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Sir Philip Martin Bailhache KBE (born February 28 1946) is the Bailiff of Jersey in the Channel Islands.

Bailhache was born in Jersey. First elected to the States of Jersey as Deputy of Grouville in 1972, he resigned his seat in 1975 to become a Crown Officer when appointed
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Jersey

This article is part of the series:
Politics of Jersey

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• Duke of Normandy: H M The Queen
• Lieutenant Governor: Andrew Ridgway
• Bailiff: Sir Philip Bailhache
• National Assembly
  

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Frank Harrison Walker is the first and current Chief Minister of Jersey, elected in 2005 by fellow States members.

Biography

Walker became managing director of the Guiton Group, publishers of the Jersey Evening Post, in the 1970s and became chairman of the company but
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Crown dependencies are possessions of The Crown in Right of the United Kingdom, as opposed to overseas territories or colonies of the United Kingdom. They comprise the Channel Island bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey and the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea.
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Water is a common chemical substance that is essential to all known forms of life.^[1] In typical usage, water refers only to its liquid form or state, but the substance also has a solid state, ice, and a gaseous state, water vapor.
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