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- Four states of the United States of America officially designate themselves as "commonwealths". All four were part of Great Britain's possessions along the Atlantic coast of North America prior to the American Revolution. As such, they share a strong influence of English common law in some of their laws and institutions.
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Commonwealth is a term used by four of the 50 states of the United States in their full official state names: Kentucky, [ 1] Massachusetts, [ 2] Pennsylvania, [ 3] and Virginia. [ 4] "
Feb 24, 2023 · There are four US states whose legal names include the term Commonwealth: Kentucky, Virginia, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. However, this term does not affect laws or life in these...
- Henry Blodget
Jul 15, 2024 · The Commonwealth is a a free association of sovereign states comprising the United Kingdom and a number of its former dependencies who have chosen to maintain ties of friendship and practical cooperation and who acknowledge the British monarch as a symbolic head of their association.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- The Commonwealth is an association of countries across the world. Although historically connected to the British Empire, any country can apply to b...
- The British monarch is head of the Commonwealth. In some Commonwealth countries, such as the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, the monarch sym...
- The Statute of Westminster in 1931 established the first countries to become autonomous while pledging allegiance to the British crown. Sovereign s...
- The smallest Commonwealth countries are Nauru, an island nation in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, and Tuvalu, a country comprising nine coral isla...
Jul 25, 2019 · Today, Commonwealth also means a political unit having local autonomy but voluntarily united with the United States. While the US has many territories there are only two commonwealths; Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands, a group of 22 islands in the Western Pacific ocean.
- Matt Rosenberg
The terms 'commonwealth' and 'state' are functionally identical in the US, with no difference in politics, laws, or relationship to the nation. The distinction is purely in name, a preference adopted by some states' constitutions.
Feb 21, 2022 · According to Merriam-Webster, commonwealth describes a nation, state, or other political unit "founded on law and united by compact or tacit agreement of the...
It replaced the Insular Government, a United States territorial government, and was established by the Tydings–McDuffie Act. The Commonwealth was designed as a transitional administration in preparation for the country's full achievement of independence, which was achieved in 1946.
