Which four states in the USA are often Identified as Commonwealths?
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The four US states that are officially commonwealths are Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia.\n\nThere is no legal distinction between these 4 commonwealths and the other 46 states.\n\nAs you may know, another use of the term "commonwealth" describes US dependencies like Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands. In that sense, commonwealths are self-governing and autonomous, and voluntarily associated with the U.S. (though some residents of P.R. may beg to differ with the word "voluntary".)
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Jay leno would have a field day with this site.....\n\n\nI'm totally blown away!! Hi nice ta meet ya massachusetts is in fact a state!  a lil quote from wikipedia.. .. i used caps for the most important line.... \n\n"Four of the states bear the formal title of Commonwealth: Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. In these cases, THIS IS MERELY A NAME AND HAS NO LEGEL EFFECT.   Somewhat confusingly, two U.S. territories -- Puerto Rico and the Northern Marianas -- are also referred to as commonwealths, and do have a legal status different from the states.\n\n50 states!!!.. count the damn stars........  \n\n  oh look theres even a site for it \nhttp://www.50states.com/\n\nMaybe your highschool should add that to the civics class curriculum\n\n\njust in case heres a lil list too.. ..\nAlabama\nAlaska\nArizona\nArkansas\nCalifornia\nColorado\nConnecticut\nDelaware\nFlorida\nGeorgia\nHawaii\nIdaho \nIllinois\nIndiana\nIowa\nKansas\nKentucky \nLouisiana \nMaine\nMaryland\nMassachusetts\nMichigan\nMinnesota\nMississippi\nMissouri\nMontana\nNebraska\nNevada\nNew Hampshire\nNew Jersey\nNew Mexico\nNew York\nNorth Carolina\nNorth Dakota\nOhio\nOklahoma \nOregon\nPennsylvania\nRhode Island\nSouth Carolina\nSouth Dakota\nTennessee\nTexas\nUtah\nVermont\nVirginia\nWashington\nWest Virginia\nWisconsin\nWyoming\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhave a splendid day =)
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I've found that it's 11 states and Washington DC, the names of states I found were Hawaii, New Jersey, Georgia, Rhode Island, Utah, and Mississippi\n\nIn Florida, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, Virginia and West Virginia, cohabitation is illegal.\n\nIn Oklahoma, it's illegal to seduce a virgin by promising that you'll marry her.
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Four states in the United States officially designate themselves "commonwealths": Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.\n\nIn these cases, this is merely a name and has no constitutional impact. They thus emphasize that they have a "government based on the common consent of the people", instead of a government legitimized through their earlier Royal Colony status that was derived from the King of England.
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Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii......there to 11 its Hawaii!
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Four states, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
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There are four states that are Commonwealths; Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.\nCommonwealth" is also used in the U.S. to describe the political relationship between the United States and the overseas unincorporated territories of Puerto Rico and of the Northern Mariana Islands.\n\nToday the term is more general and means a political community.\nThe type of community indicated by the term commonwealth varies. For instance, in different contexts it might indicate:\na political unit founded in law by agreement of the people for the common good;\na federated union of constituent states;\na community of sovereign states;\na republic;\na democratic constitutional monarchy;\na Co-operative Commonwealth is a society based on cooperative and socialist principles.
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A US Territory.\n\nThe Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico) is a self-governing unincorporated organized territory of the United States located east of the Dominican Republic in the northeastern Caribbean. Puerto Rico, the smallest of the Greater Antilles, includes the main island of Puerto Rico and a number of smaller islands and keys, including Mona, Vieques, and Culebra.
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There are a total of 50 states.  There are the 48 continental states and Alaska and Hawaii.  The United States also has six territories and the District of Columbia.
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Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Alaska.
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http://www.sec.state.ma.us/cis/cismaf/maprof.htm\n\nIt's a state, the full name is "The Common Wealth of Mass." though.
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None of the answers so far have been right.  England is a nation, like scotland, wales, and north ireland.  Each of these belongs to the state of the United Kingdom.  Great Britain refers not to the state itself, but the large island which includes england, scotland, and wales, but not north ireland, which is on the irish island.  The commonwealth is a group of countries which the british monarchy used to control in colonial times, including australia, new zealand, india, canada, etc.
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Some big congressional states were Virginia, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania.  Some of the tightest senate races were in Missouri, Tennesse, Virginia and Montana
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You said it. Some of the states united.
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The four commonwealths are Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Massachusetts. Other than in name, they are treated no differently than states by the federal government. The philosophers John Locke and Thomas Hobbes, along with English reformer Oliver Cromwell, are associated with using the term regarding politically organized communities or governments with common goals.
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The name of this country is The UNITED STATES of America. In order to have a capital for the whole 50 states a special DISTRICT was created: District of Columbia.
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actually, The continental United States refers (except sometimes in U.S. federal law and regulations) to the largest part of the U.S. that is delimited by a continuous border.Specifically, this includes 48 states and the federal capital of the U.S., the District of Columbia; it excludes Alaska and Hawaii