Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896935052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-238139

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 2

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XI Seiten, Seiten 570-1100

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part IV. The federations and the union // Chapter II. The commonwealth of Australia

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814 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [PART IV impose any tax on property of any kind belonging to a state. 115. A state shall not coin money, nor make anything but gold and silver coin a legal tender in payment of debts. 116. The Commonwealth shall not make any law for estab- lishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion, and no reli- gious test shall be required as a qualification for any office or public trust under the Commonwealth. 117. A subject of the Queen, resident in any state, shall not be subject in any other state to any disability or dis- crimination which would not be equally applicable to him if he were a subject of the Queen resident in such other state. 118. Full faith and credit shall be given, throughout the Commonwealth to the laws, the public Acts and records, and the judicial proceedings of every state. 119. The Commonwealth shall protect every state against invasion and, on the application of the Executive Government of the state. against domestic violence. PART V.——POWERS OF THE PARLIAMENT 51. The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to :— (i) Trade and commerce with other countries, and among the states including, under s. 98. navigation and shipping and state railways]. fii) Taxation ; but so as not to discriminate between states or parts of states ; (iii) Bounties on the production or export of goods, but so that such bounties shall be uniform throughout the Commonwealth ; (iv) Borrowing money on the public credit of the Common- wealth ; (v) Postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services 2; (vi) The naval and military defence of the Commonwealth and of the several states, and the control of the forces to execute and maintain the laws of the Commonwealth : (vii) Lighthouses, lightships, beacons, and buoys 3 ; (viii) Astronomical and meteorological observations 4 - * The clause was due to Mr. Higging’s fear of sacerdotalism ; see Quick ind Garran, op. cit., pp. 951-3; Harrison Moore, op. cit., pp. 287, 288. * Of. Commonwealth v. Progress Advertising Co., 10 C. L. R. 457. * On this head no legislation has yet been passed. See Meteorology Act, 1906.

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