(4 Short Letters)
1..........
A decision to become republic
should not nullify the constitutional requirement of
“in
a majority of the states”
by
“a majority of the electors”
from applying to the on-going
appointment of heads-of-state or to any future change to the Constitution of
When again
FIRST… Constitutional change from a constitutional
monarchy: To a republic…
How should a republic be structured?
SECOND... Constitutional change from the inherent right
of the Queen: To appointment by
How should a head-of-state be chosen?
The second must not implicitly be the means-to-the-end.
Given at referendum a question with even slight ambiguity the
integrity of the second (the selection
method) might be subjugated by a desire for the first (a republic).
Such an outcome could have states surrendering constitutional
equality to turn republic… Or be seen as constitutional change gained by way of
stealth.
And 1999’s republic
referendum question was therein suspect indeed
Thus any future republic
referendum model should feature a constitutionally compliant heads-of-state
selection method… A method which gives all states constitutional equality in
the heads-of-state selection process.
Constitutionally “Outlying States” now have equality in
constitutional matters… Such as providing heads-of-state for a future republic
Yogi
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Yogi
Marriott
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(A
Letter-to-the-Editor)
A
majority of Australians considers
Calls
for popular election of a “president”, a “leader”, a “sovereign”, even a “sovereign
leader” as an Australian head-of-state of a presidential republic are
persistent… Essentially to rid
But a
president means the introduction of a presidential regime which will rid
Thus we should remove only the monarchy…
And to keep the system let’s deem our six states as “royal” houses of Australia
and for each in-turn, on a five-year, sequential, contiguous and repetitive
basis, to “inherit the throne” and provide an Australian-born citizen as
head-of-state.
With a
required “majority of the States” “a majority of the electors voting” certain
at referendum a STATES republic will ensure continuing unity around and across
A republic of the
Commonwealth of
Our prime minister, as sole elected leader, with
relevant shared authority… Our unique-to-the-world republic… A totally
Australian-made republic… A STATES republic.
Yogi
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Yogi
Marriott
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Like A Pendulum Do
Without doubt and without discord Australians want to rid Australia
of British monarchy.
We otherwise call it becoming a republic.
But do we want a republic like any of those in
Republics… Having presidents ubiquitous appointed by direct
election or other means… Individuals as sole leaders who all too often visit
upon their people profound adversity.
Do we actually want
a republic… Or do we simply want to get rid of the monarchy?
The monarchy.!! Then let’s leave it out… Let’s replace it… Let’s
redefine the circumstance… Let’s allocate that role to an Australian born
citizen.
Let’s have our six disparate colonies-cum-states that formed this
nation each in-turn provide a federation-style head-of-state for set periods of
five years on a repetitive cycle.
It’s
a republic as never before
But it will
work because federation says
it will
Our Commonwealth of Australia with a federation-style head-of-state
and a prime minister as leader who share executive governorship… A STATES
republic of
Swing also will
While cult republics of the world struggle using various
lesser systems.
Yogi.
9.5.2001.
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Yogi.
Marriott
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(A Letter-to-the-Editor)
Sydney Tivoli vaudeville during WWII saw Mosy,
at a blackboard with chalk-in-hand, plaintively pleading with Tosy “Why is it that when I print F you see K ?”
At Old Parliament House vaudeville during
Con-Con 1998 it was asked “Which republic
model should be put to the voters to consider against the current system of
government?”
One vaudevillian immediately demanded “The president must be elected by two-thirds
of a joint sitting of parliament”.
A second vehemently protested “The president must be elected by direct
popular election”.
After which Con-Con’s vaudevillians spent two
intense but fruitless weeks debating how to elect that president.
Following that Australians-all suffered 86-weeks
of endless public debate about how to elect a president.
Were he still here Mosy might ask “Why is it that when I say Republic Model
you vaudevillians conjure a President?”
Now euphemistically republicans urge us to vote
for an Australian head-of-state… Yet Con-Con republicans conjured a president…
And a “yes” vote in November will produce that conjured president.
Australians must vote NO, FOR NOT GOOD ENOUGH, in November and pursue the Australian
head-of-state (not leader or president
but a federation-style head-of-state) provided by a States’ Head-of-State
Selection (STATES) model republic which says…
Let’s take the
current system of governmental structure in
And Bingo… Suddenly Con-Con’s question of 1998
is addressed, absorbed, understood and answered.
Were he still now here Mosy might well say… “A Republic Model Tosy… NOT a Model for a
President… A REPUBLIC MODEL… U C”.
Yogi
A STATES republic is virtually a STATUS
QUO republic
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Revisited
Website Uploaded 2003
STATES
Devised 1998
Conceived Mid-1990s