Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia, Vol. 1 of 2
It is now more than nine years since the Commonwealth of Australia was established; and the Constitution which was then planted in Australian soil has been watered bounteously by judicial decision, Parliamentary practice and the course of politics between England and Australia, and Commonwealth and States. It will probably be long before the more elusive political development will warrant any confident judgment upon the whole - time only can give the necessary perspective. So, at any rate, it appears to the writer, who has aimed at presenting merely the externals embodied in the law, in such practice as appears to be established, and in what may perhaps be described as doctrinal opinion. The limitations of a text-book are sufficiently obvious, of which we are not likely to want frequent reminders. Federalism, as Professor Dicey remarked years ago, is legalism; and much of its law is hard, dry, and technical. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
