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This paper intends to problematize and put into perspective the use and abuse in the current political language about the idea of "State policy". Some authors have already made significant contributions, but seem insufficient because the notion increasingly used to further confusion. The idea is search the limits of this notion, inquire about the meaning and scope, analyze the possibility of finding specific attributes, whether there are policies in Argentina that could be classified as State policies and what does its existence in a democracy. Consequently, in this first approach, we will work on the everyday uses of the concept of State policy and to speak of these we will refer , primarily, to documentary sources not academic [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]