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They have believed that they enjoyed freedom [start page 86] under their present constitution second
to none in the world. When the question of a second chamber comes to be considered, they will assuredly
not be satisfied to possess less freedom. More than this. In framing a federal constitution, we should set out
with the explicit claim to possess and exercise all the rights and privileges of citizens of the British
empire to the same extent that they are possessed and exercised by our fellow-countrymen in Great
Britain itself. Australia is entitled to absolute enfranchisement. In our union we attain political manhood
and the stature of a full-grown democracy.
END QUOTE
Hansard 2-3-1898 Constitution Convention Debates
QUOTE
Dr. QUICK.-If we are to have a citizenship of the Commonwealth higher, more comprehensive, and nobler
than that of the states, I would ask why is it not implanted in the Constitution? Mr. Barton was not present
when I made my remarks in proposing the clause. I then-anticipated the point he has raised as to the position
we occupy as subjects of the British Empire. I took occasion to indicate that in creating a federal
citizenship, and in defining the qualifications of that federal citizenship, we were not in any way
interfering with our position as subjects of the British Empire. It would be beyond the scope of the
Constitution to do that. We might be citizens of a city, citizens of a colony, or citizens of a
Commonwealth, but we would still be, subjects of the Queen. I see therefore nothing unconstitutional,
nothing contrary to our instincts as British subjects, in proposing to place power in this Constitution to
enable the Federal Parliament to deal with the question of federal citizenship.
END QUOTE
As I did have a court order dated 4 December 2002 from the Magistrates Court of Victoria at
Heidelberg, by CONSENT in AEC v Schorel-Hlavka re citizenship issue in the Form 78B
NOTICE OF CONSTITUTIONAL MATTER and this was never challenged by the
Commonwealth when I succeeded in representing myself in both successful appeals on 19 July