The Shapeshifting Crown: Locating the State in Postcolonial New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK

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The Shapeshifting Crown: Locating the State in Postcolonial New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK

Edited by Cris Shore · David V. Williams
Cambridge University Press November 2020

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9781108733854
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
November 2020
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Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The Crown stands at the heart of the New Zealand, British, Australian and Canadian constitutions as the ultimate source of legal authority and embodiment of state power. A familiar icon of the Westminster model of government, it is also an enigma. Even constitutional experts struggle to define its attributes and boundaries: who or what is the Crown and how is it embodied? Is it the Queen, the state, the government, a corporation sole or aggregate, a relic of feudal England, a metaphor, or a mask for the operation of executive power? How are its powers exercised? How have the Crowns of different Commonwealth countries developed?

The Shapeshifting Crown combines legal and anthropological perspectives to provide novel insights into the Crown's changing nature and its multiple, ambiguous and contradictory meanings. It sheds new light onto the development of the state in postcolonial societies and constitutional monarchy as a cultural system.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: a shapeshifting enigma: the Crown in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom Cris Shore
Part I. The Nature and Development of the Crown:
2. Genealogies of the modern Crown: from St Edward to Queen Elizabeth II
David V. Williams
3. The Crown as metonym for the state? The human face of Leviathan
Cris Shore
4. Indigenous peoples and the Crown: the sacred duty
Sally Raudon
Part II. The Crown as an Embodied Entity:
5. The rituals of Crown and state in New Zealand
Jai Patel
6. Locating the Crown in Australia: the swag of Camp Gallipoli
Sally Raudon
7. Localising the Crown: Royals and (re)patriation
Jai Patel and Sally Raudon
Part III. The Crown and Constitutional Reform:
8. The Republican move: cutting colonial ties
Jai Patel
9. Constitutional reform and the politics of public engagement
Cris Shore and David V. Williams
10. Crown prerogative: reining in the powers
David V. Williams
11. The Queen is dead, long live the King?
Sally Raudon
12. Conclusion: the future of the Crown in an age of uncertainty: sempiternal or crumbling foundation?
Cris Shore, David V. Williams and Sally Raudon.
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