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  • One Continent, Two Federalisms: Rediscovering the Original Meanings of Australian Federal Ideas

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    Brown, AJ
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    Brown, A J J.
    Year published
    2004
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    Abstract
    Federalism is usually described in political science as a single body of ideas-in Australia's case arriving in the 1840s-50s and moving to constitutional reality in the 1890s. This article re-examines the origins and diversity of federal ideas in Australia. It suggests that federal thought began influencing Australia's constitutional development significantly earlier than previously described. This first Australian federalism had a previously unappreciated level of support in British colonial policy and drew on Benjamin Franklin's American model of territorial change as a 'commonwealth for increase'. The revised picture ...
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    Federalism is usually described in political science as a single body of ideas-in Australia's case arriving in the 1840s-50s and moving to constitutional reality in the 1890s. This article re-examines the origins and diversity of federal ideas in Australia. It suggests that federal thought began influencing Australia's constitutional development significantly earlier than previously described. This first Australian federalism had a previously unappreciated level of support in British colonial policy and drew on Benjamin Franklin's American model of territorial change as a 'commonwealth for increase'. The revised picture entrenches the notion of federalism's logic but also reveals a dynamic, decentralist style of federalism quite different from Australia's orthodox 'classic' or compact federal theory. In fact, Australian political thought contains two often-conflicting ideas of federalism. The presence of these approaches helps explain longstanding dissent over the regional foundations of Australian constitutionalism.
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    Journal Title
    Australian Journal of Political Science
    Volume
    39
    Issue
    3
    Publisher URI
    http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10361146.asp
    Copyright Statement
    © 2004 Taylor & Francis. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version. This is the author-manuscript version of the paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.
    Subject
    Policy and administration
    Political science
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/16654
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