In the modern State, power rests on the consensus of the citizens.
They accord its institutions the authority to regulate society.
State theory suggests that this authority is a right to speak on
certain matters in certain ways and to have the audience agree with
those statements. It is a matter of an authorised language; all
others fall into the category of ratbaggery. In this 1991 book, the
first major book applying State theory to Australia, Alastair
Davidson shows how Australian citizens were formed in the
nineteenth century, and how their particular characteristics led to
the empowering of a certain language of power: legalism. He further
shows that this made the judiciary the most powerful arm of
government - unlike countries where the people arm sovereign and
the legislature supreme - because the judiciary has the last say on
all issues and in its own language.
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