Australias American Constitution and the Dismissal - How English Legal Science Marred the Founders Vision

David Long traces the cause of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis to the influence of English legal positivism which was adopted by the High Court in 1920 when it abolished the federal scheme and therewith the sovereign States going against the fundamental premise of a constitution.

List of contents

Chapter 1: The Issues
Chapter 2: The Constitutional Convention, 1897-98
Chapter 3: The Early Court
Chapter 4: The Engineers' Case
Chapter 5: The High Court after Engineers
Chapter 6: Governor-General's Reserve Powers

About the author

Well received by reviewers and readers alike, David Long has been a writer since leaving a first-class university with a second-class degree in the 1980s. He is fascinated by those strange, semi-hidden corners of England most of us cease to notice because we walk by them so often. Whilst a columnist for the Sunday People he created a popular weekly cartoon strip which appeared in the Times, and continues to write for a wide diversity of newspapers and magazines both in Britain and abroad. Many of his most popular and best-reviewed books reflect his longstanding interest in the less well-known aspects of Britain, its architecture and eccentric inhabitants - subjects, he says, which simply never run dry. He has written Bizarre England and Lost Britain for Michael O'Mara Books.

Product details

• Authors: David Long
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781793641953
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-195-3
• No. of pages: 314
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; LAW / International, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Comparative, International Law, comparative law, Constitution, Constitutional & administrative law