The invisible state : the formation of the Australian state 1788-1901 - Davidson, Alastair (Cambridge [England] ; Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 1991)
Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Prologue -- 1. Private vices become public benefits -- 2. The under-keepers -- 3. Dispossession -- 4. The house that Jack built -- 5. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? the sovereignty of the law -- 6. The Trojan horse -- 7. 'Suffer little children' -- 8. A state for a continent -- 9. ' the triumph of the people' -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 313-321.
Includes index.
Keywords: Separation of powers -- Australia -- History; Judicial power -- Australia -- History; Australia -- Politics and government -- 1788-1900.; Separation of powers; Judiciary; Power (Politics); State and the individual; History; Key item