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English: The Constitution of Australia, sourced from the Federal Register of Legislation at 27 August 2019. ... (The Constitution) as at 2013.pdf/10; Page ...
The Constitution of Australia (also known as the Commonwealth Constitution) is the fundamental law that governs the political structure of Australia. It is a written constitution , which establishes the country as a federation under a constitutional monarchy governed with a parliamentary system .
Constitutional law in the Commonwealth of Australia consists mostly of that body of doctrine which interprets the Commonwealth Constitution. The Constitution itself is embodied in clause 9 of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, which was passed by the British Parliament in 1900 after its text had been negotiated in Australian Constitutional Conventions in the 1890s and approved by ...
Section 24: Constitution of House of Representatives in Australia; Section 25: Provision as to races disqualified from voting; Section 26: Representatives in first Parliament; Section 27: Alteration of number of members; Section 28: Duration of House of Representatives; Section 29: Electoral divisions; Section 30: Qualification of electors
Section 118 is a crucial element of the Constitution of Australia, as it provides for the validity of state laws, legal entities and court judgments within a federal commonwealth, and thereby allows the Commonwealth of Australia itself to function.
Section 116 of the Constitution of Australia precludes the Commonwealth of Australia (i.e., the federal parliament) from making laws for establishing any religion, imposing any religious observance, or prohibiting the free exercise of any religion. Section 116 also provides that no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any ...
Chapter VI of the Constitution of Australia pertains to the admission of new states, alteration of the limits of existing states, and the governance of the territories. Since Federation , no new states have been admitted, although several territories have been admitted to the Commonwealth.
State constitutions in Australia are the legal documents that establish and define the structure, powers, and functions of the six state governments in Australia. Each state constitution preceded the federal Constitution of Australia as the constitutions of the then six self-governing colonies .