Library Guides: Australian and Comparative Constitutional Law: Annotators

Contemporary annotators - section by section treatment

The following 'annotators' provide a section by section treatment, providing commentary and leading cases for each provision.

The Australian Constitution (annotated) by Cheryl Saunders
Call Number: KM 76 AUST
Publication Date: 2000
This book sets out the text of the Constitution with notes to explain the effect of each chapter and each section
Lumb, Moens & Trone, The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia Annotated by Gabriel Moens, John Trone
Call Number: KM 76 MOEN
Publication Date: 2016, LexisNexis Butterworths

Contemporaneous annotators - section by section treatment

There are two contemporaneous commentaries written at the time of the drafting of the Constitution. Both are widely cited in case law and scholarly writings and held to be authoritative. These are by Quick & Garran, and by Moore.

John Quick and Robert Randolph Garran, The annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth

The Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth by John Quick and Robert Randolph Garran
Call Number: 342.94 QUIC
Publication Date: 1976
The 1976 reprint of the 1901 version. This work starts with an extensive historical introduction and guide to the study of the Constitution. It is then followed by analytical, legal and political commentaries for each section.
The Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth: 2015 Reprint by John Quick and Robert Randolph Garran
Call Number: KM 76 QUIC
Publication Date: 2015

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John Quick and Robert Randolph Garran, The Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth (Angus & Robertson, 1901) PDF replica of the original 1901 publication.

Open access online:

Commentaries on the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia
Reproduced by the University of Sydney from the 1901 original.
Historical Introduction to the Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth
Reproduced by the University of Sydney from the 1901 original.

W Harrison Moore, The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia (John Murray, 1902)

The first edition is available.

Open access online:

The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia by W Harrison Moore
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2000, John Murray
Reproduced by the University of Sydney in 2000 from the original 1902 book.

In print:

The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia by W. Harrison Moore
Call Number: 342.94 MOOR
Publication Date: 1902, John Murray
The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia, 2nd edition by W. Harrison Moore
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 1910
The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia by W. Harrison Moore
Call Number: 342.94 MOOR
Publication Date: 1910