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In point of practice the real and administrative legislative independence of Australia has never been challenged, since the Commonwealth was created.
The framers of our own Federal Commonwealth Constitution (who were for the most part lawyers) found the American instrument of government an incomparable model. They could not escape from its fascination. Its contemplation damped the smouldering fires of their originality. But, although they copied it in many respects with great fidelity, in one respect the Constitution of our Commonwealth was bound to depart altogether from its prototype. It is not a supreme law purporting to obtain its force from the direct expression of a people's inherent authority to constitute a government. It is a statute of the British Parliament enacted in the exercise of its legal sovereignty over the law everywhere in the King's Dominions.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)In point of practice the real and administrative legislative independence of Australia has never been challenged, since the Commonwealth was created.