On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 08:59:49 -0500, Stephen Forrest
<stephen.forrest(a)gmail.com> wrote:
As I said before, I am not aware of any commonly
accepted definition
of 'republic' which includes constitional monarchies.
How about the first two definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary
or the first two in Australia's Macquarie Dictionary?
Australia is a commonwealth, sovereignty resides in the people, the
monarch is a powerless figurehead, the monarch is not the head of
government, the form of government is republican and the executive
power is exercised by an appointed official.
Australia may share the same Queen as the UK, New Zealand and Canada,
but the constitutional arrangements are quite different.
--
Peter in Canberra