%0 Journal Article
%T The Legal Personality of the Commonwealth of Australia
%A Sebastian Howard Hartford Davis
%J Federal Law Review
%@ 1444-6928
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0067205X18816236
%X The article analyses legal materials concerning the legal personality of the Commonwealth of Australia under domestic law. It argues that the Commonwealth as legal person has an existence, as a unit of the legal system, which is conceptually distinct from the Commonwealth of Australia as a nation, and the Commonwealth as federal government of that nation. Current idioms (eg ¡®polity¡¯ and ¡®body politic¡¯) have a tendency to confuse these distinctions. The article suggests, as a more appropriate way to denote the Commonwealth as legal person, the term ¡®constitutional person¡¯
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0067205X18816236