...This chapter focuses on the national institution variously called the ‘federal Parliament’, the ‘Australian Parliament’, or the ‘Commonwealth Parliament’. It highlights three constitutional meta-principles as having significance for the institution of Parliament. These three—federalism...

... by examining the framework for the exercise of the legislative power of the Commonwealth. It does so from the standpoint of the separation of powers, by focusing on three significant issues: the concept of legislative power, delegation of legislative power, and authority to appropriate and grant money...

... and, secondly, that the intention was to unite the colonies into an indissoluble federal commonwealth. The Australian Constitution does not rest upon the consent of an already consolidated people; nor does it create a unitary state. It is the result of an agreement among several mutually independent political...

...This chapter focuses on the differing approaches of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the Caribbean Court of Justice towards the interpretation of the independence Constitutions of the Commonwealth Caribbean. Critiquing the lack of autochthony and the lack of meaningful public...

... Auchinleck and Lord Halifax. It describes Ismay’s tenure as Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations 1951-52, his involvement in the controversy surrounding Seretse Khama, and the circumstances of Ismay’s appointment as the first Secretary General of NATO. Attlee Clement Churchill Winston Ismay...

... sharing with their own workforce. In the short run they expect cooperatives to compete successfully with capitalist firms. In the long run, they project a cooperative commonwealth in which workers as consumers gain control of the entire surplus. Attacked as materialistic, Mitchell defends the Federalist...

..., created by Cromwell's restoration of single rule in 1653. Cromwell's rule provoked a new hostility to the principle of single rule. ancient or old constitution Charles I King Commonwealth and Free State establishment 1649 and rule of council councils custom debilitating force free state England...

... was introduced into Lithuania with only relatively minor changes. The revenues and expenditures of the two parts of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Rzeczpospolita or Res Publica) were kept separate, but both states frequently financed the same political ventures...

... as defining frameworks of cooperation in the construction of a better ordered Europe, including the European Community and the European Union (EU). The discussion has five parts: the first is about the ‘post-sovereignty’ of Europe — whether it is already in some sense a lawfully constituted commonwealth...

... Russia Siberia Steppe Islam Don Cossacks partitions of Poland Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Caucasus mining Bashkiria Middle Volga Russia’s great century of empire was transformative in size and diversity. From about 16 million square kilometers around 1700, in the eighteenth century...

... for political advance from the Pacific Islands in the next ten years. Cyprus was the next test case, and after Cyprus became an independent republic in 1960, it became the Commonwealth’s first small state in 1961. New Zealand’s grant of independence to the UN trust territory of Western Samoa in 1962 created...

... conscience-driven reforms of inherited practices. Through secularizing moralization, or the active, gradual reform of existing institutions, especially the Protestant church, an invisible church, or ethical commonwealth may be approximated, without superstition, enthusiasm, fanaticism, libertinism...

...The new Commonwealth set out to reshape the nation's mental landscape by eradicating symbols of monarchy. It had royal statues removed, along with many ‘royal’ alehouse signs, and royal arms were replaced by its own throughout the land. Reformers also addressed other aspects of the traditional...

...The chapter considers the way in which the Commonwealth featured in the accession of Elizabeth II, the legislation for her new style and title, and her coronation. It suggests that despite the continued desire of the British government to use the Crown to promote imperial unity, monarchy...

... debasement. What differentiates it from the modern experience of money is its situation, not in the post-Enlightenment discourse of economics, but in the contemporary discourse of “commonwealth,” which coordinates material values with political, ethical, and theological ones. Landreth argues...

... constitution” so important in the next reign. Chancery Court of Exchequer Court of fortitude virtue of God honor Jesus Christ justice virtue of knight service law prudence virtue of virtue Augmentations Court of Bible Christian Cicero Marcus Tullius commonwealth Erasmus Fees Lutheran...

...’, dialogic, or New Commonwealth model of judicial review instantiated in Canada, which allows for a legislative override, in a context where the chief goal was immunizing the Prime Minister from ongoing criminal prosecution. Canada constitutionalism Hungary Israel judicial review legal constitutionalism...

...This chapter provides a background on manpower, which was the central military problem of the British Empire and Commonwealth during the first half of the twentieth century. It reviews studies that show how the British military authorities put a lot of effort into forging colonial forces that were...

... Commonwealth of Australia in March 1901. It considers the link between the 1914–1916 decisions to expand the force and the government's unsuccessful efforts in 1916 and 1917 to introduce conscription for overseas service via plebiscite. Australia Australian Imperial Force AIF Bou Jean Canada Gallipoli...

...“West Indies to London” tracks the migration process—its triumphs and challenges—for a generation of West Indians at the twilight of the British Empire. Their journey was facilitated by postwar economic growth and the 1948 British Nationality Act, which granted full citizenship to Commonwealth...