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The United States and Commonwealth?

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Is the United States formally part of the Commonwealth after the War of Independence?

Update 2:

I think Canada is part of the Commonwealth, isn't it?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 years ago
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    The US most certainly isn't. The Commonwealth was formed as a club for former colonies of the British Empire after the UK started letting them go in the mid-20th century, but the US stopped being British colonies so long ago that it never had the chance to join. The Commonwealth was WAY in the future then!

    Canada, on the other hand, reached independence gradually by agreement so it's always been in the Commonwealth. It even falls in the smaller category of continuing to share the British monarch (there are 16 out of the 53 Commonwealth countries that do that, and they're the Commonwealth realms).

    The Commonwealth is in fact now open to any country that shares the ideals, and Rwanda and Mozambique have now joined though they were never British colonies. So the US could do that if it were interested. But somehow I don't think it is.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Americans kicked the deplorable brits backs in their butts to their queen's palace. Canada couldn't do it however. We wish them success.

  • 4 years ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_colonization...

    The British colonised the US originally but the US was never part of the Commonwealth - Canada is however.

  • Bill
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    No, the United States is not but Canada is.

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