Invisible State - The Formation of the Australian State

Zusammenfassung State theory suggests that this authority is a right to speak on certain matters in certain ways and to have the audience agree with those statements. This 1991 book shows how in Australia the judiciary became the most powerful arm of government because it has the last say on all issues and in its own language. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Preface; Prologue; 1. Private vices become public benefits; 2. The under-keepers; 3. Dispossession; 4. The house that Jack built; 5. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? The sovereignty of the law; 6. The Trojan horse; 7. 'Suffer little children'; 8. A state for a continent; 9. '¿ the triumph of the people'; Epilogue; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Alastair Davidson, Alastair (Rutgers University Davidson, Davidson Alastair
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 08.08.2002
• EAN: 9780521522953
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52295-3
• Pages: 352
• Thèmes: Studies in Australian History; Studies in Australian History
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Histoire par région/pays; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Droit > Droit public, administratif, constitutionnel; Australia, LAW / Constitutional, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, c 1500 onwards to present day, Australasian & Pacific history, Australasian and Pacific history, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general