refers to the placement of capital letters

Capitalization

Explanation:

The term that refers to the placement of capital letters is capitalization. Certain words are written with their first letter as a capital letter (uppercase letter) and the remaining letters in lower case. For example, the first letter of the first word in a sentence is always capitalized. Proper nouns are also always capitalized (e.g. names, holidays, days of the week and months, streets, etc).

jefferson introduced the idea that one does not change a government for "light" causes because he wanted to emphasize the seriousness of colonists' reasons for declaring independence.