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Excerpt from Studies in Australian: Constitutional Law When the first edition of this book was published there were not anv decisions of the High Court of Australia in existence; and decisions of the American Courts upon particular questions that had arisen under the Constitution of the United States could not be quoted as more authoritative than enunciations of doctrines and principles which appeared to the author to be equally applic able to the interpretation and exposition of particular provisions and features of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Aus tralia. Since then, the decisions of the High Court of Australia, in the cases of b'emden v. Pedder and Deakin v. Webb, have authoritatively declared that the doctrines and principles of federal constitutional law which were enunciated by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of mcculloch v. Maryland, as those which should govern the interpretation of the Constitu tion of that country, are equally applicable to the interpretation of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia. Refer ences to American decisions may therefore now be made by a writer on Australian constitutional law with much more confidence in their applicability to the provisions of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia than was justifiable four years ago. I have therefore not hesitated to retain all the quotations from decisions of the American Courts which appeared in the first edition, and to add others to them. I have also made use of all the decisions of the High Court of Australia which referred to any of the matters which are discussed in this volume. Several chapters have been largely re-written, and Chapter 10 of this edition is entirely new. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally r