<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The term "commonwealth" does not describe or provide for any specific political status or legal relationship when used by a state . Those that do use it are equal to those that do not . A traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good, it is used symbolically to emphasize that these states have a "government based on the common consent of the people" as opposed to one legitimized through their earlier colonial status that was derived from the British crown . It refers to the common "wealth", or welfare, of the public and is derived from a loose translation of the Latin term res publica . </P> <P> Criminal charges in these four states are brought in the name of the "commonwealth". </P>

Virginia is a commonwealth what does that mean
find me the text answering this question