Anonymous ID: 2fa5f8 Feb. 1, 2019, 7:57 p.m. No.4997004   🗄️.is 🔗kun

A commonwealth refers to any group of people organized under a single government, particularly a republic. If you live in the United States of America, you live in a commonwealth.

 

Comprised of the roots common, meaning "belonging to all," and wealth, meaning "happiness or riches," the word commonwealth originally referred to the government of England from 1649 to 1660. Nowadays, a commonwealth has come to mean any government in which all people involved have a say, or a loose formation of nations with a shared loyalty. It is also the official designation of a few states including, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia and some U.S. territories.

 

Primary Meanings of

commonwealth

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n

a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

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n

a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another

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n

the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)

 

definition: a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

 

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