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Definition of Commonwealths
1. commonwealth [n] - See also: commonwealth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Commonwealths
Literary usage of Commonwealths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law by John William Burgess (1891)
"In the first case, Congress may revise and control the inspection laws of the
commonwealths, and the net produce of all taxes laid by the commonwealths upon ..."
2. History of Federal Government in Greece and Italy by Edward Augustus Freeman, John Bagnell Bury (1893)
"Two classes of Federal Commonwealths. First, The " System of Cm- federated ...
Even among those commonwealths which at once secure to every member full ..."
3. Selected Readings in Public Finance by Charles Jesse Bullock (1906)
"The Income Tax in the American Commonwealths. — Various American states have
experimented with general or partial income taxes, and their experience has ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"It is now expressed in a series of guaranties and limitations contained in the
organic law of the several commonwealths, in a well-developed system of ..."
5. The Historical Geography of Europe by Edward Augustus Freeman (1903)
"Presently begins the gradual change of the commonwealths into tyrannies, Growth
of and the grouping together of many of them into larger states. ..."
6. The History of North America by Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe (1906)
"... received early development and practice, but many conditions have prevented
the realization of the intent of the statutes in the various commonwealths. ..."
7. History of Federal Government from the Foundation of the Achaian League to by Edward Augustus Freeman (1863)
"First of all, system of the greatness of such commonwealths is seldom so en- Bunion
... Of all 1 * ones. city-commonwealths none ever had so long a day of ..."
8. The History of Greece by William Mitford (1823)
"Measures for forming a Confederacy of Grecian Commonwealths. Disunion among the
Greeks. Assembly of Deputies from Ihe confederated Commonwealths at Corinth. ..."
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