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The purpose, rather than to standardize state abbreviations per se, was to make room in a line of no more than 23 characters for the city, the state, and the ZIP code. [4] Since 1963, only one state abbreviation has changed.
The term "commonwealth" is used interchangeably with the term "state" in the Constitution of Vermont, [11] but the act of Congress admitting that state to the Union calls it "the State of Vermont." Delaware was primarily referred to as a "state" in its 1776 Constitution; however, the term commonwealth was also used in one of its articles. [12]
The term literally meant "common well-being". In the 17th century, the definition of "commonwealth" expanded from its original sense of "public welfare" or "commonweal" to mean "a state in which the supreme power is vested in the people; a republic or democratic state". [3] [4] The term evolved to become a title to a number of political entities.
Each state elects two senators, while representatives are distributed among the states in proportion to the most recent constitutionally mandated decennial census. [5] Additionally, each state is entitled to select a number of electors to vote in the Electoral College , the body that elects the president of the United States , equal to the ...
Commonwealth (U.S. insular area), a term used for two current and one former self-governing U.S. territories; Commonwealth (U.S. state), a term used by four U.S. states in their full official state names, specifically: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the full name of Massachusetts; Commonwealth of Kentucky, the full name of Kentucky
Kentucky is one of four U.S. states to officially use the term commonwealth. The term was used for Kentucky as it had also been used by Virginia, from which Kentucky was created. The term has no particular significance in its meaning and was chosen to emphasize the distinction from the status of royal colonies as a place governed for the ...
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), political alliance between the former Soviet Republics of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. Commonwealth of Nations, fifty-six member states that are mostly Dominions or former territories of the British Empire.
The Commonwealth of Nations is a voluntary association of 56 sovereign states, referred to as Commonwealth countries. [1] Most of them were British colonies or dependencies of those colonies . No government in the Commonwealth exercises power over the others, as is the case in a political union .