The Constitution and government of Australia, 1788 to 1919 / by William Pitt Cobbett and Edited by Anne Twomey.

Alexandria, N.S.W. : The Federation Press, 2019.

1st edition

89405

Australia. -- Constitution Act.

Constitutional law -- Australia -- 1788-1919.

Australia -- Politics and government.

Part I: The colonial history of Australia

1. The British occupation and subdivision of Australia

2. The government of the Australian Colonies

3. The foundations of the Commonwealth

4. The Constitution of the Commonwealth

5. The Commonwealth as a united society

Part II: Imperial factors in Australian government

6. The nature and sources of imperial control

7. The status and powers of the Colonial Legislatures

8. Subjects of Imperial control, and the question of Imperial consolidation

Part III: The Federal government

9. The Office of the Governor-General

10. The Federal Parliament

11. The Federal Electoral System

12. The powers of the Federal Parliament

13. Legislative methods and procedure

14. The Executive Government of the Commonwealth

15. The Federal judicature

Part IV: The States and the Federal Territories

16. The Constitutional position and powers of the States

17. The relation of the States and the Commonwealth

18. The relations of the States Inter Se

19. The Federal Territories.

Between 1910 and 1919, William Pitt Cobbett, former Professor of Law and Dean of the Sydney Law School, wrote what would become his great opus on the Constitution and Government of Australia but the manuscript was never published. Its publication had been frustrated in the period following his death by the High Court's judgment in the Engineers Case in 1920 and the new constitutional order it created. A century later, Professor Anne Twomey, has edited Cobbett's original manuscript, taking care to preserve the integrity of his work. The Federation Press, with the support of the Francis Forbes Society for Australian Legal History, will publish this important historical work which provides a detailed perspective of how the Constitution operated in the first two decades after federation. - Publisher's website.

9781760022006

l, 590 p. ; 25 cm