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Defining Australia's Commonwealth Constitution
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- 1Constitutional MonarchyA system of government where a single person rule and where political authority is based on inherited positions. Monarch's power are mainly ceremonial and authority to make law belongs to elected represented of people.
- 2FederationThe creation of a nation by uniting previously separate states each which retains some power of self-government by also cedes (gives up) some power to a national government
- 3Written ConstitutionA set of written laws which a state or nation is governed. Constitution may include such things as the principles, power and processes of the political system.
- 4Constitutional ConventionsAn unwritten practice concerning the power process and procedures of a political system that has general acceptance and is consciously followed in a society's political activity.
- 5Common LawLaw that is based on custom or previous judgements of the court
- 6Statute LawA legally enforceable legislative Act that has passed all stages in parliament, has received Royal Assent and has been proclaimed
- 7Dual FederationFederal arrangement where central government and regional levels of government act independently in their respective spheres
- 8Coercive FederationImbalance of power in federal system, where the central authority effectively dominates the regional level of government
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