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The '''Commonwealth Union''' was the second largest political party in the [[Urcea|Apostolic Kingdom of Urcea]]. The Commonwealth Union's main opponent in [[Urcea]] was the older [[National Pact (Urcea)|National Pact]].

The party originated as moderate supporters of the program of [[Gréagóir FitzRex]] during the latter portion of the [[Red Interregnum]], beginning as an institutional reformist (with respect to voting) and {{wp|technocratic}} party, positions it held until the [[Second Great War]]. The party was not republican during this period, but held individual monarchs in suspicion. During and after the war, the party is viewed as reconciling itself to the [[Apostolic King of Urcea|Monarchy]] and redeveloping its historic political positions within the context of [[Organicism|organicism]]. As opposed to the [[National Pact (Urcea)|National Pact]], the Commonwealth Union began to espouse a more {{wp|distributist}} economy and also believed in a more active foreign policy outside the [[Levantine Union]]. After the Great War, the party largely became supporters of the {{wp|status quo}} and became a {{wp|big tent}} party in opposition to the economic liberalism of the [[National Pact (Urcea)|National Pact]]. Fissures began to form in the party following the rise of [[Michael Witte]], splitting the party into "big tent centrist" faction, the left-wing "[[Urcean_socialist_philosophy#Urcean_Mode_Electoralists|Urcean mode Marxists]]" party, and the [[Wittonian Socialism|Wittonian Socialist faction]]. The party dissolved as part of the [[2015 Urcean political realignment]] and is considered to have been legally succeeded by the [[Union for National Solidarity (Urcea)|Union for National Solidarity]] founded by the Wittonian faction.