Australia's Constitution after Whitlam

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Law, Constitutional
Cover of the book Australia's Constitution after Whitlam by Brendan Lim, Cambridge University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Brendan Lim ISBN: 9781108131971
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: April 6, 2017
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Brendan Lim
ISBN: 9781108131971
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: April 6, 2017
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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.

More books from Cambridge University Press

Cover of the book Particle Dark Matter by Brendan Lim
Cover of the book Fundamentals of Aerospace Navigation and Guidance by Brendan Lim
Cover of the book The Chinese Worker after Socialism by Brendan Lim
Cover of the book The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry by Brendan Lim
Cover of the book Power in Movement by Brendan Lim
Cover of the book Trait-Mediated Indirect Interactions by Brendan Lim
Cover of the book The French War on Al Qa'ida in Africa by Brendan Lim
Cover of the book Gravity's Fatal Attraction by Brendan Lim
Cover of the book Implementing Article 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child by Brendan Lim
Cover of the book Equality in Education Law and Policy, 1954–2010 by Brendan Lim
Cover of the book Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences by Brendan Lim
Cover of the book Eighteen Hundred and Eleven by Brendan Lim
Cover of the book Uncertainty by Brendan Lim
Cover of the book German Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democratic Renewal by Brendan Lim
Cover of the book Mechanics of Solid Materials by Brendan Lim
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy