@Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 14 days agoTIL Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia are commonwealths.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1152arrow-down19
arrow-up1143arrow-down1external-linkTIL Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia are commonwealths.en.wikipedia.org@Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 14 days agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-square@hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish15•14 days agoWell it does mean in criminal cases you don’t call the prosecutors the state, but you call them “the commonwealth” which is interesting.
It’s just a name, it means nothing legally
Well it does mean in criminal cases you don’t call the prosecutors the state, but you call them “the commonwealth” which is interesting.