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Argument: If the Australian constitutional monarchy isn't broke, don't fix it
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Rev. Kameel Majdali, Ph.D. "Australia's Constitution, Crown, and Future". Retrieved April 20th, 2008 - "Our Australian Constitution, which in essence consists of the document of 1901, the later amendments, the relevant parliamentary acts, and the aforementioned centuries of inherited conventions, has the right mix of parliamentary balance of power. Both the electorate and the Crown ensure that there are limitations on what the politicians can do.
To tamper with a good constitution is like playing around with the foundations of a building; it disturbed, it can send cracks up the building wall...or worse. A legal expert from Canada named Ian Holloway uses the term "Constitutionalism" to those who want to tamper with the symbolism and/or substance of a working constitution. According to Holloway, constitutionalism is a "fixation with the form, rather than the substance, of the terms of a country's constitution, and a desire to alter its form in a fundamental way without realising that this in fact is being done, and without paying heed to the consequences which will necessarily follow on the alteration" (HOLLOWAY 1998:14)."