The King and His Dominion Governors
The King and His Dominion Governors

Author: Herbert Vere Evatt

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1967-02-10

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780714614717

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First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The King and His Dominion Governors, 1936
The King and His Dominion Governors, 1936

Author: Herbert Vere Evatt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-23

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1136945938

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First Published in 1967. The method or system of government in the United Kingdom and the self-governing Dominions may be described with sufficient accuracy as that of a political democracy under the Crown. This study is published because the author is convinced that constant research into, and analysis of, all the present-day implications and tendencies of such method or system are essential.

Australia’s American Constitution and the Dismissal
Australia’s American Constitution and the Dismissal

Author: David Long

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-04-28

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 179364196X

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David Long traces the cause of the 1975 constitutional crisis to the influence of English legal positivism, a theory which isolates the meaning from the political scheme the text was framed to support. He shows the fundamental premise of a Constitution, framed in Convention, ratified by the people that cannot be altered without their consent, the consent of the governed. Legal positivism was adopted by the High Court in 1920 when it abolished the federal scheme and therewith the sovereign States. The responsible judge had opposed federalism at the 1897 Convention. Long examines two juristic opinions that excused the Governor-General’s 1975 unprecedented dismissal of a government with the confidence of the House of Representatives. He identifies their reliance on legal positivist constitutional interpretations that are expressly rejected by the Founders. Long provides a theoretical defence of the Founders original understanding as the object of constitutional construction.