| Main Title: |
The invisible state : the formation of the Australian state 1788-1901 / Alastair Davidson. |
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| Author: |
Davidson, Alastair.
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| Imprint: |
Cambridge, Eng. : Cambridge University Press, 1991. |
| Collation: |
xviii, 329 pages, hardback ; 26 cm. |
| Subject: |
Separation of powers
Politics and Government - Australia
Australian constitution
Constitutional law
Australia
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| Series: |
Studies in Australian history.
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| ISBN: |
0521366585 |
| Notes: |
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.
Bibliography: p. 313-321.
Includes index.
[Variant title:The formation of the Australian state 1788-1901.]
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