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This page offers an outline of the national Constitution,
statute law and common law.
It covers -
state constitutions
Much activity in Australia occurs in the sphere of state/territory
law rather than Commonwealth law and, as discussed in
later pages of this profile, many services are delivered
by the individual state/territory governments rather than
by Canberra.
The Australia states have discrete constitutions, legislatures,
executives and courts.
Those constitutions in principle impose fewer restraints
on the executive than that of the national Constitution.
They also do not feature the restrictions that inhibit
ready amendment of the national Constitution.
The salient work on the state constitutions is Gerard
Carney's The Constitutional Systems of the Australian
States and Territories (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni
Press 2006).
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