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Brendan Lim

Australia's Constitution after Whitlam

Brendan Lim

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English
Cambridge University Press
21 June 2018
Law; Law & society; Constitutional & administrative law; Parliamentary & legislative practice
Series: Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
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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Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Volume:   17
Dimensions:   Height: 230mm,  Width: 153mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   450g
ISBN:   9781107551992
ISBN 10:   1107551994
Series:   Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
Pages:   302
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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