Puerto Rico is, of course, an American commonwealth.
Under present arrangements the commonwealth provides about 60% of course fees.
Given a moment's thought, of course, there are plenty of people from Commonwealth countries who'd be utterly delighted to live in peaceful stable Britain, and, in fact, there are plenty who move here all the time.
As Augustine says, "There was, of course, according to a more practicable definition, a commonwealth of a sort" (ibid).
Christophe Lemaitre is always there and, of course, it could be Usain Bolt in the Commonwealths.
And others too, of course, typically all in the few sports where the Commonwealth countries can muster a genuinely elite field.
A hundred years ago, the men who joined the British army during World War I came by the millions -- from England, of course, but also from Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Canada, Australia, South Africa and other then-Commonwealth lands.
Except of course it isn't a business walking in asking for more money but state governments, with whom the federal government has joint responsibility to fund a functioning hospital system, asking that the commonwealth take joint responsibility.
Of course, they can work either well or badly, and a good citizen is one who makes valuable contributions to the public good, or builds "the commonwealth".
