Constitutional Heads and Political Crises

A selection of essays about the constitutional crises throughout the Commonwealth since the Second World War, from Australia, Ceylon, Pakistan, Nigeria, Fiji, India, Grenada, Malaysia and Canada, which examines, in particular, the role and involvement of the Governor-General.

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Introduction - Buckingham Palace and the Westminster model, D.A.Low; setting a precedent by breaking a precedent - Lord Soulbury in Ceylon, 1952, J.Manor; Governors and politicians - the Australian states principally in the 1940s and 1950s, J.Paul; a Governor-General's two dismissals - the Pakistan episodes, 1953-54, A.Jalal; politics, law and constitutionalism - the 1962 Western region crisis in Nigeria, J.O'Connell; the dismissal of a Prime Minister - Australia 11 November 1975, D.A.Low; the Governor-General's part in a constitutional crisis - Fiji 1977, D.J.Murray; seeking the greater power and constitutional change - India's President and the parliamentary crisis of 1979, J.Manor; a revolutionary Governor-General - the Grenada crisis of 1983, P.Fraser; the conventions of ministerial resignations - the Queensland coalition crisis of 1983, D.J.Markwell; princes and politicians - the constitutional crisis in Malaysia, 1983-84, A.J.Stockwell; the double role of the Indian governors - Kashmir and Andhra Pradesh 1984, D.G.Verney; the crises that didn't happen - Canada 1945-85, J.R.Mallory.