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,Kerr’s Ghost: The Office of Governor-General in Australia After 1975,g the evolution of the role of the office of Governor-General since the dismissal of the Whitlam Labor government in 1975. At the heart of this change is the vexed issue of the Governor-General’s presence in the fabric of the body politic. Despite recent claims made for the centrality and increasing

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,The Struggle to Reform Brunei’s Monarchy: The Sultan and the British,nd wealth as an oil-producing kingdom which the British—especially its Governor-General for Southeast Asia, Malcolm MacDonald—treated with much reverence and respect. For this reason, Brunei succeeded in staying out of the proposed British North Borneo federation and eventually pulled out of the pro

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Viceregalism at Westminster: The Role and Powers of the Queen in the 2019 Brexit Constitutional Crint in 2019. These crises in Westminster highlighted the lack of contemporary awareness of the Queen’s constitutional capacities and constraints in such tense political conditions. A consequence of this was widespread confusion and ignorance regarding the use of the prerogative powers by both the Que

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,The Struggle to Reform Brunei’s Monarchy: The Sultan and the British,. At the same time, it explores the particular dynamics in the relation between the Sultan and British officials in explaining why and how the British came down against the efforts of its own High Commissioner, Sir Anthony Abell, in his efforts to ‘constitutionalise’ and ‘modernise’ the Brunei Sultanate.

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Viceregalism at Westminster: The Role and Powers of the Queen in the 2019 Brexit Constitutional Crien as Head of State and the Prime Minister as Head of Government. It seeks to show how Viceregalism is relevant to the UK and the importance of understanding the Queen’s position as a political actor, rather than a purely ceremonial one by drawing on modern British and Commonwealth history.

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Sovereigns, Sovereignties and the Scottish Question: Identities and Constitutional Change,arrel with the constitutional monarchy and especially the current monarch. But the Queen has occasionally been drawn into Scottish constitutional politics. This paper will consider these episodes and explore the sovereign/sovereignty distinction in these debates and setting these debates in historical context.

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,The Radical Nationalist as Constitutional Head of State: Nigeria, 1960–66,presents a first account of Azikiwe’s tenure as Governor-General (1960–63) and then President of Nigeria (1963–66), and his role in the nation-wide constitutional crisis of December 1964–January 1965, which pushed Nigeria towards military coup, civil war, and the shift towards ‘executive presidencies’ in the decades to follow.