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9781875378289

For the Sovereignty of the People: A Conversation with Niccolo's Ghost and a Defence of the Crown in the Westminster System

For the Sovereignty of the People: A Conversation with Niccolo's Ghost and a Defence of the Crown in the Westminster System
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  • ISBN-13: 9781875378289
  • ISBN: 1875378286
  • Publication Date: 1999
  • Publisher: Australian Academic Press

AUTHOR

Greenwood, Nigel/John Conrad

SUMMARY

This is a book on politics, history and legal philosophy like no other. Featuring an introduction by the late Sir Walter Campbell AC QC, former Governor and Chief Justice of Queensland, it argues that the republican ideal of government "...of the people, by the people, for the people" has permanently parted company from the republican form of government. A monarchist, not a royalist, the author argues that the important aspects of the monarchy are not the sentimental or tabloid details, but the constitutional role that has evolved within parliamentary democracy over centuries, in Britain and the rest of the Commonwealth. The book advocates the importance of the Crown in the Westminster parliamentary system of democracy, to limit executive power and help preserve peaceful, culturally diverse societies in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand. Contrasts are presented between the legal safeguards inherent in the Westminster system with the failures of governance in the United States and France.Greenwood, Nigel/John Conrad is the author of 'For the Sovereignty of the People: A Conversation with Niccolo's Ghost and a Defence of the Crown in the Westminster System', published 1999 under ISBN 9781875378289 and ISBN 1875378286.

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