The Coming Commonwealth: An Australian Handbook of Federal Government ...Angus & Robertson, 1897 - 192 pages |
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Page 144 - XXIV. The service and execution throughout the Commonwealth of the civil and criminal process and the judgments of the courts of the States. XXV. The recognition throughout the Commonwealth of the laws, the public acts and records, and the judicial proceedings of the States.
Page 145 - Matters referred to the Parliament of the Commonwealth by the Parliament or Parliaments of any State or States, but so that the law shall extend only to States by whose Parliaments the matter is referred, or which afterwards adopt the law...
Page 144 - The naval and military defence of the Commonwealth and of the several States, and the control of the forces to execute and maintain the laws of the Commonwealth.
Page 145 - The exercise within the Commonwealth, at the request or with the concurrence of the parliaments of all the States directly concerned, of any power which can at the establishment of this constitution be exercised only by the Parliament of the United Kingdom or by the Federal Council of Australasia.
Page 16 - The name of Federal Government may, in its widest sense, be applied to any union of component members where the degree of union between the members surpasses that of mere alliance, however intimate, and where the degree of independence possessed by each member surpasses anything which can fairly come under the head of merely municipal freedom.
Page 143 - The regulation of trade and commerce with other countries, and among the several States.
Page 145 - II. Matters relating to any department of the public service the control of which is by this constitution transferred to the executive government of the Commonwealth.
Page 44 - General given to a larger portion of Greece than any previous age ofStheS had seen, a measure of freedom? unity, and general good government, which may well atone for the lack of the dazzling glory of the old Athenian Democracy.
Page 145 - One of them is to deal with the affairs of people of any race with respect to whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws not applicable to the general community ; but so that this power shall not extend to authorise legislation with respect to the aboriginal native race in Australia and the Maori race in New Zealand.
Page 76 - The Cantons are sovereign, so far as their sovereignty is not limited by the Federal Constitution; and, as such, they exercise all the rights which are not delegated to the federal government.