The Invisible State : The Formation of the Australian State
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Format
Paperback / softback
Book Series
Studies in Australian History
ISBN-10
0521522951
ISBN-13
9780521522953
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 8th, 2002
Print length
352 Pages
Weight
610 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 19.10 x 1.90 cms
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State theory suggests that this authority is a right to speak on certain matters in certain ways and to have the audience agree with those statements. This 1991 book shows how in Australia the judiciary became the most powerful arm of government because it has the last say on all issues and in its own language.
In the modern State, power rests on the consensus of the citizens. They accord its institutions the authority to regulate society. State theory suggests that this authority is a right to speak on certain matters in certain ways and to have the audience agree with those statements. It is a matter of an authorised language; all others fall into the category of ratbaggery. In this 1991 book, the first major book applying State theory to Australia, Alastair Davidson shows how Australian citizens were formed in the nineteenth century, and how their particular characteristics led to the empowering of a certain language of power: legalism. He further shows that this made the judiciary the most powerful arm of government - unlike countries where the people arm sovereign and the legislature supreme - because the judiciary has the last say on all issues and in its own language.
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