On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 03:16:37 -0600, Jack Lutz <jack-lutz(a)comcast.net> wrote:
Surely the Australian government has written a thing
or two about whether it
is a constitutional monarchy or republic?
The two terms are not exclusive. Australia has a republican form of
government where sovereignty resides in the people and executive power
is given to and exercised by elected and appointed officers, Howver,
the Queen has a highly visible symbolic role and has some remnant
functions, chief of which is the formal appointment of the
Governor-General.
The government directory calls the Governor-General the head of state
some years, other times says the Queen is the head of state. It's
impossible to find a definitive answer.
--
Peter in Canberra