A voluntary Commonwealth is judged an unusually successful legacy of the British Empire. Its attraction rests on sporting, cultural, and economic links that countries still want to join. The praise concerns this institutional outcome and stops short of calling Britain's way of ending empire the right way. The claim that no other empire achieved an equivalent transformation is an admiring historical judgment.
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The Commonwealth as an unusual end to empire
A favorable appraisal of the Commonwealth focuses on voluntary membership and continuing sporting, cultural, and economic ties.