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The head of state debate resolved.(The Constitution)
THE PRINCIPAL ARGUMENT advanced in the current campaign for a change to a republic is that the head of state should be Australian; constitutional monarchists reply that we already have an Australian head of state in the governor-general. A hitherto overlooked High Court decision provides the key to the resolution of this dispute.
This campaign is the fourth significant attempt to create an Australian republic. I The first was to establish a white racist republic in the nineteenth century, free of the immigration policy of the British empire. This faded away with the movement to Federation, with the Commonwealth of Australia being endowed with an express power to ...
- The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State Longfellow, David September 22, 1997 700+ words
...literature, regularly revived this religious and political quarrel. While Jansenists had not begun as constitutional monarchists or defenders of religious toleration and freedom of political opinion, by the end of the century these...
- Maoist rebels end talks, truce in Nepal; Government puts forces on 'red...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times August 30, 2003 700+ words
...constituent assembly to draft a new constitution and insisting that all agreements...for such an assembly to write a new constitution led the rebels to withdraw from peace...divided into "constructive" and "constitutional" monarchists - the latter vehemently opposed to...
- Confound their politics. (the Australian Republican movement)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Langer, Albert May 1, 1998 700+ words
...a monarch, to "reign over us". They are of course constitutional monarchists -- they accept that the head of state should be subject...Westminster model, adding only the federal elements of the US constitution rather than its elected king. But they went even further...
- National Front, Iran
- Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa Matin-asgari, Afshin January 1, 2004 700+ words
...the National Front as a parliamentary faction. The front's diverse wings included social democrats, constitutional monarchists, and Islamists (led by clerics). Its social base consisted of bazaar merchants and craft guilds, members...
- And here is my new regal look.(Column)
- Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England) January 30, 2005 700+ words
...to Iraq after the invasion. And he is standing in today's elections on behalf of his own party, the Constitutional Monarchists. The title is no accident. For Sharif Ali is a pretender to the Iraqi throne. When his cousin, and Iraq...
- DoD News Briefing -- Part 1 of 2.
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire August 12, 2002 700+ words
...Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq; the Islamic Movement of Iraq -- Iraqi Kurdistan; and the Constitutional Monarchists. (Note: Six groups will attend. The Islamic Movement of Iraqi Kurdistan will not participate in the...
- Kurd denies U.S. build up in north Iraq.
- News wire article from: United Press International August 7, 2002 700+ words
...intelligence officers who defected from Saddam's Iraq and are said to have strong ties to the CIA; and the Constitutional Monarchists, headed by Sharif Ali bin Hussein, a claimant to the Iraqi throne overthrown in 1958. Sharif Ali is also...
- Financial Mail, London, Gadfly column.
- Newspaper article from: Daily Mail (London) February 1, 2005 700+ words
...to Iraq after the invasion. And he is standing in today's elections on behalf of his own party, the Constitutional Monarchists. The title is no accident. For Sharif Ali is a pretender to the Iraqi throne. When his cousin, and Iraq...
