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The constitution of a federal commonwealth : the making and meaning of the Australian constitution / Nicholas Aroney.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aroney, Nicholas, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Federal government--Australia--History.
- Federal government.
- Constitutional history--Australia.
- Constitutional history.
- Australia--Politics and government.
- Australia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 426 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- By analysing original sources and evaluating conceptual frameworks, this book discusses the idea proclaimed in the Preamble to the Constitution that Australia is a federal commonwealth. Taking careful account of the influence which the American, Canadian and Swiss Constitutions had upon the framers of the Australian Constitution, the author shows how the framers wrestled with the problem of integrating federal ideas with inherited British traditions and their own experiences of parliamentary government. In so doing, the book explains how the Constitution came into being in the context of the groundswell of federal ideas then sweeping the English-speaking world. In advancing an original argument about the relationship between the formation of the Constitution, the representative institutions, configurations of power and amending formulas contained therein, light is shed on the terms and structure of the Constitution and a range of problems associated with its interpretation and practical operation are addressed.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Australia as a federal commonwealth
- Federalism
- Conceptualising federalism
- Reframing the analysis
- Federating Australia
- Models and Sources
- Australian appropriations
- Constitutional foundations
- Australian federation
- Principles of representation
- Representative institutions
- The states and the Commonwealth
- Configurations of power
- Amendment procedures
- Conclusions
- A federal commonwealth.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-410) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-20109-8
- 1-283-33022-9
- 9786613330222
- 1-139-13473-6
- 0-511-60967-1
- 1-139-12968-6
- 1-139-13362-4
- 0-511-50475-6
- 0-511-50689-9
- OCLC:
- 437110081
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