On 05/06/2012 07:05, melanie chesnel wrote: > On Monday, June 4, 2012 5:25:04 PM UTC+2, (unknown) wrote: > Oliver Cromwell, my historical hero who >> abolished the monarchy and led the execution party of Charles I, making Britain a republic, >> albeit for only a relatively short period. >> > > Commonwealth - Britain has never been a Republic. Commonwealth is the English term for a political community founded for the common good, a Republic is a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them. Agreed in both cases the head of state is not a Monarch, but Cromwell's Commonwealth was not republican in my opinion and Cromwell was less than democratic. > > regards > melanie chesnel > I was at his house in Ely today. Pretty sure the signs there say it was "briefly a Republic" of something like that.