Commonwealth of Nations membership criteria
The criteria for membership in the Commonwealth of Nations, which apply to current and prospective member states, have been altered by a series of documents issued over the past eighty-two years.
Louis St. Laurent, the author of the London Declaration formula that laid out embryonic membership criteria.
Statute of Westminster 1931
The Statute of Westminster 1931 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that sets the basis for the relationship between the Dominions and the Crown.
King George V surrounded by the prime ministers of the various dominions at the 1926 conference
The Big Picture, opening of the Parliament of Australia, 9 May 1901, by Tom Roberts
Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King (left) and his British counterpart Stanley Baldwin (right), 1926