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| | Australian Republican Movement - News 29-05-03 'G-G's exit opens the way for republic' The Canberra Times (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | The concept of citizenship was, at its inception in Roman times, directly linked with that of the republic, the res publica, literally the "public thing", in which all citizens had a stake and which derived its authority from them. |
 | | In contrast to this bottom-up transfer of authority in a republic, authority in a monarchy vests the monarch and, while some of it may flow down to other institutions, it is ultimately traceable back to the monarch. |
 | | Bede Harris teaches constitutional law at the University of Canberra and is the author of A New Constitution for Australia (Cavendish, 2002). |
| www.republic.org.au /ARM-2001/news%26events/newsclips/2003/29May03.htm (821 words) |
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