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The Invisible State
Alastair Davidson
其他書名
The Formation of the Australian State
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2002-08-08
主題
History / Australia & New Zealand
Law / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
Law / Legal History
Law / Judicial Power
Political Science / History & Theory
Political Science / Political Process / General
Political Science / Constitutions
Political Science / World / Australian & Oceanian
ISBN
0521522951
9780521522953
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=afvGVQcamv4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.