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 166-264 Constitutional Design and Change: Australia and America

Note

Available as 166-364 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Brian Galligan & David Tucker

Prerequisites

Normally 25 points of first year Politics; students with only 12.5 points in Politics may apply to the 2nd/3rd-year coordinator.

Semester

1

Contact

Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial per week for one semester

Subject Description

A study of American influences on Australia's constitutional development and of a comparison between the Australian and American systems. Topics of contemporary significance will also provide a focus, including a bill of rights, changing Australia into a Republic, redefining federal state relations, and establishing reconciliation with indigenous people. Experiences in both the United States and Australia will be explored to inform the discussion of these topics.

Assessment

Written work totalling 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts
  • Galligan, Brian, A Federal Republic: Australia's Constitutional System of Government. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1995.
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