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The Commonwealth of Nations, often simply referred to as the Commonwealth, [4] is an international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire from which it developed. [2] They are connected through their use of the English language and historical-cultural ties.
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, [15] is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. [b] Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country.
Commonwealth v. Twitchell, 416 Mass. 114, 617 N.E.2d 609 (1993), [1] was the most prominent of a series of criminal cases, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, in which parents who were members of the Christian Science church were prosecuted for the deaths of children whose medical conditions had been treated only by Christian Science prayer.
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia.It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, the Red Sea to the south, Egypt to the southwest, the Mediterranean Sea to the west, and the Palestinian territories – the West Bank along the east and the Gaza Strip along the southwest.
Commonwealth v. Aves , 35 Mass. 193 (1836), was a case in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on the subject of transportation of slaves to free states. In August 1836, Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw ruled that slaves brought to Massachusetts "for any temporary purpose of business or pleasure" were entitled to freedom.
Pennsylvania ( / ˌpɛnsɪlˈveɪniə / ⓘ, lit. 'Penn's forest country' ), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania [b] ( Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsylvanie ), [7] is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.
The Bahamas ( / bəˈhɑːməz / ⓘ bə-HAH-məz ), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, [12] is a country in North America and the Caribbean. It is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the Atlantic Ocean. It contains 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and 88% of its population.
The Isle of Man ( Manx: Mannin [ˈmanɪnʲ], also Ellan Vannin [ˈɛlʲan ˈvanɪnʲ]) or Mann ( / mæn / man ), [10] is a self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland. It is recognized as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Manx people, a Celtic ethnic group.