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Bigoted Bedrock of Our Law

Amidst media fervour over the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton (Princess Catherine), Geoffrey Robertson raises the Australian republican question in this opinion piece. Beginning with reference to Thomas Paine’s denunciation of…

Tags: Act of Settlement (1701), Anne Boleyn (c.1500-1536), anti-Catholicism, Australian constitution, British throne, Charles III (b.1948), Commonwealth, constitution, constitutional law, David Cameron (b.1966), Elizabeth II (b.1926), feudal principle, inheritance, Kate Middleton (b.1982), law, laws, legal, monarch, monarchy, primogeniture, Protestantism, republican campaign, republicanism, royal tradition, Saxe-Coburg Gotha, succession, Thomas Paine (1737-1809), throne, Tony Blair (b.1953), treason, Treason Act (1351), William V (b.1982), Windsor

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