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Publisher | The Federation Press |
Author(s) | Peter Boyce |
Subtitle | The Crown and Its Legacy in Australia, Canada and New Zealand |
Published | 18th September 2008 |
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The Crown and Its Legacy in Australia, Canada and New Zealand
Canada, Australia and New Zealand inherited and adapted a monarchical framework of government, even in the absence of a resident monarch. Although steady transfer of the royal prerogative to a popularly elected executive has enabled these three former dominions to be sometimes described as “crowned republics” or “disguised republics”, there was no popular drive to abandon monarchy until the 1990s, and even then the republican cause was based largely on issues of symbolism and national identity than on perceived core weaknesses in the political system.