(4 Short Letters)
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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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Website Uploaded 2003
STATES Devised 1998
Conceived Mid-1990s