Skyring wrote:
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.
I notice you have a severe absence of sources to refer to on the point -
you know, anything other than your own original research that says
the words "Australia is a republic."
- d.