THE CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH UNIVERS LIBRAR By W HARRISON MOORE OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AND OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW PUBLIC LIBRARY 470724 ASTOR. LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATION R 1922 L GLASGOW PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS PREFACE THE writer of a book on the Commonwealth of Australia has no need to arouse interest in his subject; but his anxiety must be the greater, lest his exposition should be unworthy of the matter dealt with, and should fail to satisfy the expectations of those who, from many very different points of view, desire to study the new Constitution. I have departed somewhat from the arrangement adopted in the Constitution itself, for reasons which I think will be apparent to those who may use the book. I hope, however, that the index to the Constitution will enable readers to use the book as an annotated text. I append a list of principal works referred to. I have not in every case made use of the latest editions, partly because in Australia it is not always easy to obtain them or even to ascertain what is the latest edition of a work, partly because the greater number are works of which libraries and students are as likely to have earlier as later editions. I desire to express my thanks to the editors and publishers of the Quarterly Review, the Law Quarterly Review, and the Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation for permission to make use of articles which I have contributed to those magazines; in the case of the last-named journal, I have also to acknowledge the assistance I have received from the articles which have appeared from time to time on Modes of Legislation in the British Colonies, |