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In 1937 De Valera’s republican constitution took Ireland out of the British Commonwealth, and the new republic elected its first president, Douglas Hyde, in 1938.
William Landsidle Comptroller Commonwealth of Virginia
The campaign has spread throughout the Commonwealth of Nations ("Crusade for Plain English Reaches Ghana," announced a recent cover story of the organization's magazine) and has opened a U.S. office in Miami.
The Commonwealth currently holds world records for several species of fish.
In 1951 the island’s voters approved a new constitution (still in effect) forming a commonwealth between the United States and the “free associated state” of Puerto Rico (though even the commencement ceremony was marred by violent demonstrations by radicals).