The Constitution of a Federal Commonwealth - The Making and Meaning of the Australian Constitution (Paperback)

By analysing original sources and evaluating conceptual frameworks, Nicholas Aroney 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, fresh 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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2009
First published:	2009
Authors:	Nicholas Aroney
Dimensions:	229 x 153 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	446
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-71689-5
Categories:	Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Constitutional & administrative law > General Promotions
LSN:	0-521-71689-6
Barcode:	9780521716895

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