All About Mount Sterling, KY

Mount Sterling is a city in Montgomery County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 5,876 at the 2000 census. It is the principal city of the Mount Sterling Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Montgomery County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of 2006, the population was 24,887. Its county seat is Mount Sterling. With regard to the sale of alcohol, it is classified as a moist county?a county in which alcohol sales are prohibited (a dry county), but containing a "wet" city where package alcohol sales are allowed, in this case Mount Sterling.

Montgomery County is part of the Mount Sterling Micropolitan Statistical Area.

The Commonwealth of Kentucky () is a state located in the East Central United States of America. Kentucky is normally included in the group of Southern states (in particular the Upland South), but it is sometimes included, geographically and culturally, in the Midwest. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth (the other three being Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts). Originally a part of Virginia, in 1792 it became the 15th state to join the Union. Kentucky is the 37th largest state in terms of land area, and ranks 26th in population.

Kentucky is known as the "Bluegrass State", a nickname based on the fact that bluegrass is present in many of the lawns and pastures throughout the state. It is a land with diverse environments and abundant resources, including the world's longest cave system, Mammoth Cave National Park, the greatest length of navigable waterways and streams in the Lower 48 states, and the two largest man-made lakes east of the Mississippi River. It is also home to the highest per capita number of deer and turkey in the United States, the largest free ranging elk herd east of Montana, and the nation's most productive coalfield. Kentucky is also known for thoroughbred horses, horse racing, bourbon distilleries, bluegrass music, automobile manufacturing, tobacco, and college basketball.

The English noun commonwealth dates from the fifteenth century. The original phrase "common-wealth" or "the common weal" comes from the old meaning of "wealth," which is "well-being." The term literally meant "common well-being." Thus commonwealth originally meant a state or nation-state governed for the common good as opposed to an authoritarian state governed for the benefit of a given class of owners. Commonwealth derives from the Latin term res publica, a broad concept which is also sometimes translated as "public affairs" or "the state" in certain contexts. Res publica is also the term from which the English word republic arises.

Today the term is more general and means a political community.

The type of community indicated by the term commonwealth varies.

For instance, in different contexts it might indicate:

*a political unit founded in law by agreement of the people for the common good;

*a federated union of constituent states;

*a community of sovereign states;

*a republic;

*a democratic constitutional monarchy.

Outside of those states that call themselves commonwealths, "the Commonwealth" normally refers to the 53-member Commonwealth of Nations.