The Role of the ‘Crown’ in Australia’s Political Landscape

Commentary The Australian Federation was created under “the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,” as stated in the preamble to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 (UK). The word Crown originally meant the monarch in their official governing capacity. In the nations retaining a monarchical figurehead, the term is now commonly used in an extended sense as being synonymous with the State. The Crown is, therefore, the State in all its aspects within the jurisprudence of the governmental realms and their subdivisions. History books remind us of that momentous episode in the early 17th century when Sir Edward Coke angered a monarch for reminding him that even the king “ought to be under God and the law.”…(Source:TheEpochtimes.com) Read Complete Story