[HD, 85%, Spring 2025] 70616 CONSTITUTIONAL LAW EXAM NOTES (COMPLETE SCAFFOLDS)

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Comprehensive 70616 Australian Constitutional Law final exam notes with full answer scaffolds for every issue you will face in the exam. Structured so you can identify the issue, drop in the scaffold, and apply to the facts. Designed for problem questions but works equally well for revision. Topics covered: - Interpretation of the Constitution (Engineers; Cole v Whitfield; connotation/denotation) - Characterisation (sufficient connection test; reasonably appropriate and adapted test) - Race Power (s 51(xxvi)) - Trade and Commerce Power (s 51(i)) - Corporations Power (s 51(xx)) including Work Choices - External Affairs Power (s 51(xxix)) - all four aspects - Taxation Power (s 51(ii)) and s 55 - Grants Power (s 96) - Commonwealth Places (s 52) - Territories Power (s 122) - Defence Power (s 51(vi)) and the Communist Party Case doctrine - Nationhood Power (s 61 + s 51(xxxix); Pape; Williams No 1 and No 2) - Implied Incidental Power (s 51(xxxix)) - Melbourne Corporation principle (federalism / intergovernmental immunities) - Separation of Judicial Power (Ch III, Boilermakers, persona designata) - Kable doctrine (State courts) - Section 51(xxxi) acquisition of property on just terms - Section 116 freedom of religion - Section 92 freedom of interstate trade (Cole v Whitfield; Betfair) - Section 117 out-of-State residents - Section 80 trial by jury - Implied freedom of political communication (Lange + McCloy structured proportionality, applied through Brown, Clubb, LibertyWorks) - Implied right to vote (Roach; Rowe) - Inconsistency of laws (s 109) - direct and indirect