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The Commonwealth

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CONSTITUTION. The Commonwealth is a free association of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Ghana, Nigeria, Cyprus, Sierra Leone, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Kenya, Malaysia, Tanzania, Malawi, Malta, Zambia, The Gambia, Singapore, Guyana, Botswana, Lesotho, Barbados, and their dependent territories.

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S. H. Steinberg John Paxton

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Steinberg, S.H., Paxton, J. (1969). The Commonwealth. In: Steinberg, S.H., Paxton, J. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book 1969–1970. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270985_4

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