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Australia's Constitution after Whitlam (Hardcover)
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Australia's Constitution after Whitlam (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
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Australia's constitutional crisis of 1975 was not simply about the
precise powers of the Senate or the Governor-General. It was about
competing accounts of how to legitimate informal constitutional
change. For Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, and the parliamentary
tradition that he invoked, national elections sufficiently
legitimated even the most constitutionally transformative of his
goals. For his opponents, and a more complex tradition of popular
sovereignty, more decisive evidence was required of the consent of
the people themselves. This book traces the emergence of this
fundamental constitutional debate and chronicles its subsequent
iterations in sometimes surprising institutional configurations:
the politics of judicial appointment in the Murphy Affair; the
evolution of judicial review in the Mason Court; and the
difficulties Australian republicanism faced in the Howard
Referendum. Though the patterns of institutional engagement have
varied, the persistent question of how to legitimate informal
constitutional change continues to shape Australia's constitution
after Whitlam.
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