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1 online resource (xiii, 274 pages) |
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Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Table of Statutes and Cases; Statutes; Cases; 1 Introduction: A Shapeshifting Enigma: The Crown in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom; From Colonial Aggressor to Postcolonial Apologist: The Many Faces of the Crown; Legal Fiction or Social Fact: The Crown as Metonym for the State; Hidden in Plain Sight; Apparitions and Shifting Forms: The Multiple Personalities of the Crown; Problematising the Crown: Methodology and Approach of This Study; Aims and Scope of This Volume; References |
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Part I The Nature and Development of the Crown2 Genealogies of the Modern Crown: From St Edward to Queen Elizabeth II; Introduction; Crowns; A Journey of Fits and Starts; The Tudor Constitution; Decisive Inventions in the Seventeenth Century; The 'Ancient Constitution' of St Edward; The Role of Magna Carta Then and Now; From Indivisible Imperial Crown to Divisible Constitutional Monarchies; The Constitution Act 1986 in New Zealand; The Indivisible Crown, It Turns Out, Is Divisible; References; 3 The Crown as Metonym for the State?: The Human Face of Leviathan |
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Introduction: The Greatest of Artificial PersonsConceptions of Crown and State in Legal Thought; Anthropological Perspectives on the Crown and the State; Theories of the State as a Lens for Understanding the Crown?; The Illusion of Its Own Coherence; A Powerful Fiction: Socially and Symbolically Constructed; Personifying State and Crown: Cold-Hearted Monster Versus Warm-Blooded Monarch; Conclusion: The Greatest of All Artificial Persons?; References; 4 Indigenous Peoples and the Crown: The Sacred Duty; Waitangi, 1963; The Dispossessing Crown as a Source of Redress |
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'We Talk about the Crown because Maori Talk about the Crown'Indigenous Conceptions of the Crown; The Crown as Partner; The Royal Proclamation 1763; A Minority in Their Own Lands; The Australian Counter-Example; The Australian Crown's Absence; Māori as Crown Partner: The Crown's Duties; Canada's Constitutional Imperative: Honour and Fiduciary Duty; Conclusion; References; Part II The Crown as an Embodied Entity; 5 The Rituals of Crown and State in New Zealand; Sovereign Authority and the Ritual Process; 'The Queen Reigns but the Government Rules'; Opening Parliament in the Name of Her Majesty |
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A Syncretic CrownConclusion; References; 6 Locating the Crown in Australia: The Swag of Camp Gallipoli; The Australian Crown's Distinctive Context; Anzac Day: History of a Political Ritual; 'Just Like the Diggers Did': Behind the Sandbags at Camp Gallipoli; '100 Years of Anzac Spirit'; Hidden in Plain Sight; Refreshed Memories and Reanimated Meanings; United under the Crown?; References; 7 Localising the Crown: Royals and (Re)Patriation; 'Canada Has Always Been a Monarchy'; 'Homecomings, Not Visits': The Queen and Royal Tours; The Australian Counter-Example |
| Summary |
The Crown stands at the heart of the New Zealand, British, Australian and Canadian constitutions as the ultimate source of legal authority and embodiment of state power. A familiar icon of the Westminster model of government, it is also an enigma. Even constitutional experts struggle to define its attributes and boundaries: who or what is the Crown and how is it embodied? Is it the Queen, the state, the government, a corporation sole or aggregate, a relic of feudal England, a metaphor, or a mask for the operation of executive power? How are its powers exercised? How have the Crowns of different Commonwealth countries developed? The Shapeshifting Crown combines legal and anthropological perspectives to provide novel insights into the Crown's changing nature and its multiple, ambiguous and contradictory meanings. It sheds new light onto the development of the state in postcolonial societies and constitutional monarchy as a cultural system |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 04, 2019) |
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Sovereignty.
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Monarchy -- Commonwealth countries
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Heads of state -- Commonwealth countries
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sovereignty.
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LAW -- International.
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Heads of state.
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Monarchy.
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Politics and government.
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Sovereignty.
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New Zealand -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091511
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Australia -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597
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Canada -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019334
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Great Britain -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056868
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Australia.
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Canada.
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Commonwealth countries.
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Great Britain.
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New Zealand.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shore, Cris, 1959- editor.
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Williams, David (David V.), editor.
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| ISBN |
9781108677738 |
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1108677738 |
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9781108756174 |
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1108756174 |
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1108733859 |
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9781108733854 |
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