Shapeshifting Crown
Locating the State in Post-Colonial New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK
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Word Count
72,000 words, Guess
Page Count
288 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28710063M
- ISBN-139781108496469
- OCLC Control Number1084351095
- Library of Congress Control Number2018040455
Classifications
- LCCJN331
Description
"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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