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    The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia : history, principle and interpretation / Nicholas Aroney, Peter Gerangelos, Sarah Murray, James Stellios ; foreword by Chief Justice Robert French AC.

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    • Title:The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia : history, principle and interpretation / Nicholas Aroney, Peter Gerangelos, Sarah Murray, James Stellios ; foreword by Chief Justice Robert French AC.
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    • Author/Creator:Aroney, Nicholas, author.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Gerangelos, Peter A., author.
      Murray, Sarah (Sarah Louise), author.
      Stellios, James Stephen, author.
    • Published/Created:Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Constitutional law--Australia.
      Constitutional history--Australia.
    • Description:xlvi, 650 pages ; 23 cm
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780521759182 paperback
      0521759188 paperback
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Constitution
      I. Introduction
      II. Historical origins
      1. Preamble to the Constitution
      2. British constitutionalism
      3. Parliamentary sovereignty
      4. Colonial background
      III. Political development
      1. Local self-government
      2. Federal conventions
      IV. Institutions and principles
      1. Commonwealth institutions
      2. Fundamental principles
      V. Constitutionalism in practice
      1. Political change and constitutional evolution
      2. Methods of interpretation
      3. Explanation and evaluation
      2. Parliament
      I. Introduction
      II. Composition of Parliament
      1. Queen and the Governor-General
      2. Senate
      3. House of Representatives
      III. Powers, functions and procedures
      1. Parliamentary control over government finance
      2. Deadlocks between the houses
      3. Parliamentary procedure
      4. Parliamentary privilege
      IV. Conclusions
      3. Legislative power
      I. Introduction
      II. nature of legislative power
      1. Plenary power: `Peace, order, and good government'
      2. Extra-territorial laws: `of the Commonwealth'
      3. Limited power: `subject to this Constitution'
      III. Interpreting legislative power
      1. Rise and fall of the federal compact
      2. Expansionist techniques of interpretation
      IV. Particular legislative powers
      1. Corporations power
      2. External affairs power
      3. Implied nationhood power
      V. Conclusions
      4. Demarcations of power
      I. Introduction
      1. Commonwealth and State protections
      2. Protection of an integrated economy
      3. Limits on legislative, executive and judicial power
      II. Inconsistency between Commonwealth and State laws
      1. Constitutional supremacy
      2. Commonwealth exclusivity
      3. Varieties of inconsistency
      4. Inconsistency between Commonwealth and State laws
      5. Consequences of inconsistency
      III. Intergovernmental immunities
      1. Independent sovereignty: Immunity of instrumentalities (1903
      20)
      2. Parliamentary supremacy: Engineers (1920
      47)
      3. Moderate State immunity: Melbourne Corporation (1947)
      4. Strong Commonwealth immunity: Cigamatic (1962
      )
      IV. Conclusions
      5. Limits on power
      I. Introduction
      II. Acquisition of property on just terms
      1. Legislative power and constitutional right
      2. Acquisition of property
      3. Just terms
      4. Commonwealth purposes
      III. Freedom of trade
      1. Preliminary analysis
      2. Early approaches
      3. Individual rights theory
      4. Free trade theory
      5. Personal intercourse
      IV. Freedom of religion
      1. history
      2. text
      3. cases
      V. Freedom of political communication
      1. Introduction
      2. Freedom of speech in the Constitution
      3. Text, structure and proportionality
      VI. Conclusions
      6. Executive
      I. Introduction
      II. `Executive power and `the Executive'
      1. Modern definitions and their limitations
      2. `metaphysical' quality?
      3. moveable feast?
      4. Emergence of the separation of powers
      III. Parliamentary supremacy and the Executive
      IV. Structure of the Executive
      1. Crown and the monarch
      2. Queen's representatives
      3. Ministers of the Crown, Executive Council and Cabinet
      V. Responsible government
      1. Responsible government in the Constitution
      2. framers and responsible government
      3. Responsible government: Old issues, modern problems
      VI. Conclusions
      7. Executive power
      I. Introduction
      II. metes and bounds of executive power
      1. Executive power and the rule of law
      2. Textual analysis: Execution and maintenance
      3. Historical context: Prerogatives, capacities and federal limitations
      III. depth and breadth of executive power
      1. common law: Prerogatives and capacities
      2. Governmental necessities: The implied `nationhood' power
      3. evolution of executive power
      IV. changing dimensions of executive power
      1. expanding breadth of executive power
      2. contracting depth of executive power
      3. key sources of Commonwealth executive power: Concluding summary
      V. relationship between executive and legislative power
      1. Section 61 executive power
      2. Non-section 61 executive powers
      3. Generic and specific executive power
      4. separation of executive and legislative power
      VI. Conclusions
      8. judicature
      I. Introduction
      II. Appeals to the Privy Council
      1. continuing role for the Privy Council
      2. emergence of Australian judicial autonomy
      III. Appellate jurisdiction of the High Court
      1. Inter-State Commission
      2. `Exceptions' and `regulations'
      3. `Judgments, decrees, orders, and sentences'
      IV. federal judicial system
      1. Original federal jurisdiction
      2. Central concepts
      3. Heads of federal jurisdiction
      4. Sections 75(iii) and (v)
      5. Sections 76(i) and (ii)
      6. Federal courts and State courts exercising federal jurisdiction
      V. expanding reach of federal jurisdiction
      1. Accrued jurisdiction
      2. Federal courts
      3. State courts
      VI. Territory courts
      VII. Section 80 jury trials
      1. operation of s 80
      2. purpose of s 80
      VIII. Conclusions
      9. Judicial power
      I. Introduction
      II. Separation of judicial power
      1. Political theories and the views of the framers
      2. establishment of the separation principles
      3. Rationales for the principles
      III. Commonwealth judicial power
      1. defining characteristic
      2. jurisdictional requirement of a `matter'
      3. Determining or creating rights
      4. Complicating principles
      5. Discretion and policy
      6. Merits review
      7. Regulatory tribunals
      8. Sovereign authority
      IV. Exceptions to the separation principles
      V. Due process protections
      1. constitutional basis
      2. Features of the judicial process
      VI. Chapter III limitations and State courts
      1. State courts and the federal judicature
      2. Separation of judicial power at the State level
      3. decision in Kable
      4. unstable principle?
      5. Incompatibility and the essential features of `State courts'
      6. further evolution of Kable
      VII. Conclusions
      10. States
      I. Introduction
      II. continuing States
      III. Role in the federation
      IV. State Constitutions
      1. History
      2. Government structure
      3. Plenary legislative power
      4. Restrictions on legislative power
      5. Implied freedom of political communication
      V. States and constitutional change
      1. New States
      2. Amendments to the Commonwealth Constitution
      VI. Conclusions.
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