The Shapeshifting Crown
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The Shapeshifting Crown

Locating the State in Postcolonial New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK

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The Shapeshifting Crown

Locating the State in Postcolonial New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781108496469
eBook ISBN
9781108756174
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Public Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Contents
  6. Figures
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Table of Statutes and Cases
  9. 1 Introduction: A Shapeshifting Enigma: The Crown in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom
  10. Part I The Nature and Development of the Crown
  11. Part II The Crown as an Embodied Entity
  12. Part III The Crown and Constitutional Reform
  13. Index