Case law
Romani v State of New South Wales (2022) NSWSC 1086 (pdf)
Romani v State of New South Wales [2023] NSWSC 49 (pdf)
Romani v State of New South Wales (No 2) [2023] NSWSC 1044 (pdf)
From the book Spooner_1485_Bk (3.5Mb pdf)
THE Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation.
It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man. And it does not so much as even purport to be a contract between persons now existing. It purports, at most, to be only a contract between persons living eighty years ago. And it can be supposed to have been a’ contract then only between persona who had already come to years of discretion, so as to be competent to make reasonable and obligatory contracts. Furthermore, we know, historically, that only a small portion even of the people then existing were consulted on the subject, or asked, or permitted to express either their consent or dissent in any formal manner. Those persons, if any, who did give their consent formally, are all dead now.
Most of them have been dead forty, fifty, sixty, or seventy years.
And the Constitution, so far as it was their contract, died with them. They had no natural power or right to make it obligatory upon their children.
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