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COMMONWEALTH

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 784 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CLI-COM
COMMONWEALTH , a
term
  generally synonymous with commonweal, i.e. public welfare, but more particularly signifying a form of government in which the general public have a direct voice. " The Commonwealth " is used in a
special
  sense to denote the period in
English
 
history
  between the execution of
Charles
  I. in 1649 and the Restoration in 166o. Commonwealth is also the official designation in America of the states of
Massachusetts
 ,
Pennsylvania
 ,
Virginia
  and Kentucky. The Common-wealth of Australia is the
title
  of the federation of Australian colonies carried out in 1900.


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