BIBFRAME Work

Title

Australia's American Constitution and the dismissal

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Long, David (Lawyer) (author )

Subject

• Constitutional law--Australia--English influences (LCSH)
• Constitutional history--Australia--20th century (LCSH)
• Constitutional law--Australia--American influences (LCSH)
• The Dismissal (Australian constitutional crisis, 1975)

Language

• English

Classification

• DDC: 342.94 (Assigner: dlc)
• LCC: KU1760 .L66 2021 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• index
• bibliography

Summary

"David Long traces the cause of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis to the influence of English legal positivism which was adopted by the High Court in 1920 when it abolished the federal scheme and therewith the sovereign States going against the fundamental premise of a constitution"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

The issues -- The Constitutional Convention, 1897-98 -- The early court -- The engineers' case -- The High Court after engineers -- Governor-General's reserve powers - Conclusion.

Authorized Access Point

Long, David (Lawyer). Australia's American Constitution and the dismissal

Geographic Coverage

• Australia

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:16:36.738775+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 21874545

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc