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Re: national v nationalist

The four
> states which call themselves commonwealths are Massachusetts,
> Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Kentucky.

>  A. Joseph Ross

I'd been taught that the word "Commonwealth" in the four examples
above,  were completely trappings.  Totally identical in every way
to the manner in which "state" is used in other states.  The term
"Great and General Court" of Massachusetts is yet another example of
the way the founders labeled the then new institutions for the
purposes of image and pride, most likely.

Bill O'Neill