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CONTENTS Acknowledgements iii 1. Introduction. Constitutions: Writing Nations, Reading Difference 1 2. Theorising Constitutional Texts 28 3. 'In the Name of God and of the Dead Generations': Proclaiming the Irish Republic 64 4. 'The Treaty Always Speaks': Reading the Treaty of Waitangi / Te Tiriti o Waitangi 119 5. 'Fracturing the Skeleton' of the Law: The Mabo Decision and the Re-Constitution of Australia 177 6. Conjuring Spectres: Location in the Constitution of Britain in its Post-Imperial Moment 233 7. Re-reading Constitutional Texts 292 Endnotes 298 Bibliography
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Constitutions -- Great Britain.
Constitutional law -- Great Britain -- Language.
Constitutions -- Commonwealth countries.
Constitutional law -- Commonwealth countries -- Language.