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Our head or state.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
SIR: Professor Winterton's paper on the head of state (September 2004) omitted a very relevant pronouncement by the Imperial Conference of 1926 which said:
The Governor-General of a Dominion is the representative of the Crown, holding in all essential respects the same position in relation to the administration ...
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