What is a Commonwealth?

[Keith Broaders]

The United States was created to be the Commonwealth of North American States. In a Commonwealth all of people have equal rights and responsibilities and are expected to respect the lives, liberty and property of everyone living in  in the community.

The earth was a gift from God to provide manlind with a place to live and the natural resiurces necessary to survuve,  We do not own the land on whcih we live or the air we breathe/ God is the Creator abd the owner we are merely the stewards.

Description: Commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good. Historically it has sometimes been synonymous with "republic". The noun "commonwealth", meaning "public welfare general good or advantage" dates from the 15th century. Originally a phrase it comes from the old meaning of "wealth", which is "well-being", and is itself a loose translation of the Latin res publica . The term literally meant "common well-being". In the 17th century, the definition of "commonwealth" expanded from its original sense of "public welfare" or "commonweal" to mean "a state in which the supreme power is vested in the people; a republic or democratic state". The term evolved to become a title to a number of political entities. Three countries – Australia, the Bahamas, and Dominica – have the official title "Commonwealth", as do four U.S. states and two U.S. territories. More recently, the term has been used to name some fraternal associations of nations, most notably the Commonwealth of Nations, an organization primarily of former territories of the British Empire, which is often referred to as simply "the Commonwealth".