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commonwealth

Body politic founded on law for the common ‘weal’ or good. Political philosophers of the 17th century, such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, used the term to mean an organized political community. In Britain it is specifically applied to the period between 1649 and 1660 when, after the execution of Charles I in the English Civil War, England was a republic.

‘Commonwealth’ is the official designation in the USA for the states of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Kentucky.



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JEAN BODIN, THE SIX BOOKES OF h COMMONWEALE 86 (Kenneth Douglas McRae ed.
Indigenous sovereignty: a reassessment in light of the UN Declaration ... by Wiessner, Siegfried / Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The 1505 charter of the Merchant Adventurers of Calais had limited the company's lawmaking power by the requirement that an "Act or Statute" that was "contrary" to the "Crowne, Honor, Dignity Royall or Prerogative or to the deminution of the Commonweale of our Realme" was "of no force or effect.
The corporate origins of judicial review by Bilder, Mary Sarah / Yale Law Journal
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Passions and Constraint: On the Theory of Liberal Democracy by St. John, Richard / Yale Law Journal
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