792 THE FEDERATIONS AND THE UNION [PART IV 
that under the Dominion Constitution she will ultimately 
lose all her representation! It is provided that the popula- 
tion in those states shall not include persons of races who 
are restricted from exercising the franchise for the more 
numerous House in each state, or aboriginals (s. 127), and 
this will affect the population of Western Australia and 
Queensland, which since 19072 and 19052 have excluded 
Asiatics and other aboriginals from the franchise for that 
House. The original numbers were provided for in the 
Constitution Act giving to New South Wales twenty-six, 
Victoria twenty-three, Queensland nine, South Australia 
seven, Western Australia five, and Tasmania five apiece. 
The numbers have been since changed by adding one to 
New South Wales and depriving Victoria of a member, by 
Act No. 11 of 1905. Electoral matters and the division of 
the states are regulated by the Electoral Act, 1902-9, and 
the reports of the Commissions under it. Efforts to make the 
states control the franchise were decisively rejected in 
the passing of the constitution. 
The provisions of the Act which affect the autonomy of the 
states rest first in the creation of the new body to represent 
all Australia. The creation alone must evidently be claimed 
to be more than a mere creation of a new agency ; it is the 
calling into being of an agency to speak authoritatively for 
Australia whether as concerns the outside world and foreign 
powers, or as concerns the Empire as a whole. These two 
fundamental principles owe their application to the Imperial 
Government and have not yet won general acceptance in 
Australia itself, where the State Governments in differing 
degrees show clearly that they tend to regard the Common- 
wealth as rather a new entity beside the old than a new entity 
which includes the old and in some ways destroys the 
individuality of the old.* It is significant that the Act 
itself says little of this: it contains in the preamble an 
1 See 33 8. C. R. 575; [1905] A. C. 37. Cf. Quick and Garran, op. cit.. 
pp. 446 seq. 
* Act No. 27 of that year. # Act No. 1 of that year. 
¢ (Cf. Harrison Moore, op. cit., pp. 295 seq.