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| | Commonwealth Realm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A Commonwealth Realm is any one of the 16 sovereign states of the Commonwealth of Nations that recognise Queen Elizabeth II as their Queen and head of state. | | | With time, some Commonwealth Realms moved to become republics, passing constitutional amendments removing the monarch as their head of state, and replacing the Governor-General with an elected or appointed president. | | | In some former Commonwealth Realms, including Malta, Trinidad and Tobago, and Mauritius, the new office of President was a ceremonial post, but in others, such as Ghana, Malawi and Gambia, the Presidency was an executive post, usually first held by the last Prime Minister. |
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| | Commonwealth of Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Commonwealth membership was held to have lapsed until 1997, after racist provisions in the republican constitution were repealed and reapplication for membership made. | | | The Commonwealth of Nations, usually known as The Commonwealth, is an association of 53 independent sovereign states, almost all of which are former territories of the British Empire. | | | Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has used the term frequently to allege that the Commonwealth's attempts to catalyse political changes in his country is motivated by racism and colonialist attitudes and that the White Commonwealth dominates the Commonwealth of Nations as a whole. |
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| | Althusius: Politica: XVIII |
| | Ephors are the representatives of the commonwealth or universal association to whom, by the consent of the people associated in a political body, the supreme responsibility has been entrusted for employing its power and right in constituting the supreme magistrate and in assisting him with aid and counsel in the activities of the associated body. | | | The third is that in time of interregnum, or of an incapacitated administration of the commonwealth, the ephors become a trustee for the supreme magistrate and undertake the administration of the commonwealth until another supreme magistrate is elected. | | | These public ministers of the realm are elected by the united and associated bodies or members of the realm for the purpose of properly and honestly attending to, administering, governing, and conserving the body and rights of this universal association. |
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http://www.constitution.org/alth/alth_18.htm
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| | Personal union - |
| | As a Commonwealth Realm from 1931-1961 (adoption of Statute of Westminister to republic). | | | As a Commonwealth Realm from 1922-1936/1949, when it became a republic (see Irish head of state from 1936-1949. | | | Personal union with Lithuania from 1386 to 1569 known as the Polish-Lithuanian Union. |
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| | Althusius: Politica: IX |
| | The members of a realm, or of this universal symbiotic association, are not, I say, individual men, families, or collegia, as in a private or a particular public association. | | | Polybius says that the desirable and stable condition of a commonwealth is one in which holy and blameless life is lived in private, and justice and clemency flourish in public. | | | But the Venetian commonwealth, because it remains of medium size and vigorously resists wilful corruptions by the severity of its laws, has endured for the longest time, as one was also able to say of the city of Sparta. |
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| | Monarchy in Canada - Voyager, the free encyclopedia |
| | Tony O'Donohue, a Canadian republican and civic politician, observed that the Act of Settlement 1701 explicitly excludes Roman Catholics from the throne and the Queen is Supreme Governor of the Church of England, requiring her to be an Anglican. | | | The Prime Minister of Barbados is setting a goal for the end of 2005 for his country becoming a republic, and the Prime Minister of Jamaica has proposed same for his nation by 2007. | | | This idea was further enhanced by the Statute of Westminster 1931, which granted the dominions of the Commonwealth autonomy from the British parliament and equality with the United Kingdom. |
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| | Althusius: Politica: XXVIII |
| | In the former the supreme magistrate is concerned with the whole body of the commonwealth, and in the latter with the members and parts of it. | | | In each district of his province, the provincial head should constitute a presbytery by the election and consent of the church, and confirm it by his own authority. | | | The establishment of schools is the means by which public schools and laboratories of piety and the liberal arts are set up and made accessible in all provinces by the authority and command of the supreme magistrate of the realm. |
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| | Countries of The World Encyclopedia Article @ VariedTastes.com (Varied Tastes) |
| | Puerto Rico - Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (unincorporated organized territory (commonwealth) associated with the United States) | | | Northern Mariana Islands - Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (unincorporated organized territory (commonwealth) in political union with the United States) | | | Saint Kitts and Nevis - Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis (federal state, Commonwealth Realm) |
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| | The Lyran Alliance: House Steiner |
| | Having spent the past few years quietly garnering support from various quarters, she announced her intention to depose Alessandro "for the good of the nation." The Estates General backed Katrina with a resounding vote of no confidence in the Archon; the LCAF high command likewise threw its weight behind her. | | | Its first act was to inaugurate Robert Marsden as Archon Basileus over the entire Lyran Commonwealth. | | | Like other Inner Sphere nations born in the twenty-third and twenty-fourth centuries, the states that became the Lyran Commonwealth formed against a backdrop of turmoil on humanity's homeworld, Terra. |
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| | Realms |
| | Before they broke with the monarchy, several nations held national referendums on whether or not their citizens supported the adoption of a republican constitution. | | | Queen Elizabeth II was recognized as the newly independent nation's Head of State and sovereign monarch with a distinct title (ie; "Queen of Pakistan"). | | | Until the mid 60's, every British colony that was granted independence from the United Kingdom became a "Commonwealth Realm" monarchy by default. |
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| | Commonwealth |
| | Nauru and Tuvalu are special members, with the right to participate in all functional Commonwealth meetings and activities, but not to attend meetings of Commonwealth Heads of Government. | | | There are 54 member countries of the Commonwealth. | | | The great majority of Commonwealth members are parliamentary democracies. |
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http://home.wanadoo.nl/english.site/royal/commonwealth.htm
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| | Free Commonwealth of the Greater Burovian Realm |
| | A Community of Nations following the Ideals of Burovianism, which originated in Westria. | | | which means that *nothing* works right now ;-) In the meanwhile, please visit the web pages of our predecessor, the Westrian Realm! | | | Or, send an email to the Burovian World Assembly (BWA)! |
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