Power, parliament and the people / editors, Michael Coper, George Williams.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Constitutional change and implied freedoms / Maurice Byers -- The politics of constitutional change / Brian Galligan -- Managing constitutional change from a psychological perspective / Valerie Braithwaite -- The president : adapting to popular election / George Winterton -- Leading change / Graham Little -- Elect the government! / David Solomon -- Non-justiciability and the Australian constitution / James A. Thomson -- In defence of parliamentary sovereignty / Graham Maddox and Tod Moore -- The role of the Chief Justice as adviser to the head of state / Elizabeth Handsley -- The sovereignty of the people / Leslie Zines -- The people in the republican tradition / Philip Pettit -- The people and their conventions / Helen Irving -- The dismisssal and Australian democracy / Paul Kelly.