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Tables of Contents for The Invisible State
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
 
Preface
xi
 
Prologue
1
3
The European model
4
2
The English ``time immemorial ways''
6
6
The making of consensus
12
4
``. . . a remote portion of the British Realm''
16
3
Private Vices Become Public Benefits
19
16
``The child is father of the man. . .'': The governors as manufacturers of Australians
19
11
An unruly family: The ideology of an unpunished and undisciplined convict world
30
5
The Under-keepers
35
30
Settling them down: Compelling work habits
35
6
The experience of work: Learning through doing
41
8
Making the family: Marriage and the creation of the basic social organisation
49
9
The result of such patterns of punishment and discipline: The disciplined, honest and industrious family man
58
7
Dispossession
65
26
Deliberately possessive individualism causes unintended political attitudes: The adolescent rebellion created
65
4
Squatters as models: The biggest possessive individualists lead the rest
69
8
``The way to hell...'': The destruction of the Aborigines
77
9
Equal treatment for the unequal compounds injustice
86
5
The House That Jack Built
91
32
The reforming administered society and its structure
91
2
The British connection: The despotic enemy
93
3
A separate Australian administration emerges
96
6
Policing the inhabitants
102
5
Public action in the police state: Learning to be a citizen
107
5
The systematisation of police regulation: From regular coercion to preventative regulation
112
7
The establishment of an ``impartial'' administration
119
4
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? The Sovereignty of the Law
123
28
Finding a ``more reasonable basis'' for the national family: The end of an unaccountable administration and the beginning of law
123
6
The reason of the Australian law and the place of politics in it
129
12
The bases for consensus in the rule of law
141
7
Ousting popular notions of law and justice
148
3
The Trojan Horse
151
42
The legal profession becomes dominant in society
151
3
The lawyers lead the struggle for civil liberties
154
4
Politics and the beginnings of the Australian State
158
1
The popular demand for British law and order
159
3
The lawyers set up the State for the people
162
7
The lawyers decide what this new State is and fail
169
2
The law decides what the State is and succeeds
171
5
It is not what the British have: Responsible government
176
11
Why the ``rule of law'' in Australia is not the British ``rule of law''
187
2
Colonial self-government: The forms of democracy without the substance
189
4
``Suffer Little Children''
193
26
Threats to stability: International capitalism and the world market
193
6
New hegemonic solutions: The manipulation of women
199
8
New hegemonic solutions: The State in loco parentis
207
4
New hegemonic solutions: The State as educator
211
3
New hegemonic solutions: Demographic control of the population and the complicit victims
214
5
A State for a Continent
219
22
Threats to the hegemonic State: The use of ``labour''
219
2
The contradictions of capitalism and the failure of the colonial hegemonic State
221
4
The beginnings of an Australian solution: Legalisation of conflict by conciliation and arbitration
225
2
The systemic limits to conciliation and arbitration in the colonial State
227
3
Continuity and change: The federal solution as the extension of the hegemony of law
230
3
The consensus of the people: The conventions of the 1890s
233
3
The people sign their own warrant
236
2
A people gets the government it deserves? The constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia
238
3
``... the Triumph of the People''
241
16
Who was responsible for the failure to achieve popular sovereignty?
241
2
The role of the organisers of the people and the hegemony of bourgeois ideas
243
7
The absence of theory and the triumph of legalism in the leaders of the people
250
4
Lost opportunities and pious hopes
254
3
Epilogue
257
4
The de jure pre-eminence of the judiciary in the Australian State
257
1
Its de facto pre-eminence excludes a discourse of popular sovereignty
258
3
Notes
261
52
Select Bibliography
313
10
Index
323