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Trade and Commerce
Tax
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General Knowledge
Comparative Constitutional Issues
100
1) trade and commerce 2) with other countries and among the states
What are the limbs of the trade and commerce power?
100
The section of the Constitution that provides power to the Commonwealth to legislate with respect to tax.
What is 51(ii)?
100
The section of the Constitution that provides the Commonwealth with the power to implement treaties into domestic legislation.
What is s 51(xxix)?
100
The section of the US Bill of Rights that protects the right to bear arms.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
200
The case that provides the following definition for Trade and Commerce: The mutual communings, the negotiations, verbal and by correspondence, the bargain, the transport and the delivery are all, but not exclusively, parts of that class of relations between mankind which the world calls ‘trade and commerce’
What is W A McArthur Ltd v Queensland?
200
A fee for services rendered
What will not be considered a tax under s. 51(ii)
200
The three divisions of foreign relations under the External Affairs power.
What are: 1) laws dealing with foreign relations; 2) treaties and conventions; and 3) matters of international concern?
200
Following this case commonwealth heads of power are to be given full scope and effect according to natural and ordinary meaning of words
What is the Engineers Case (Amalgamated Society of Engineers v Adelaide Steamship Co Ltd)?
200
The world's oldest written constitution.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
300
The name of the case about tyres that made it "clear that the Commonwealth power over trade and commerce can only extend to such intrastate trade and commerce as is inseparably connected with interstate trade and commerce."
What is Redfern v Dunlop Rubber Australia Ltd?
300
Laws imposing taxation shall deal only with the imposition of taxation.
What restriction is provided under section 55?
300
Reasonably capable of being considered appropriate and adapted
What is the test for whether an act conforms with a treaty?
300
The name of the case that included this quote: "Peace, welfare and good government ... are not words of limitation."
What is Union Steamship
300
Iran and Saudi Arabia
Which countries incorporate Sharia law into their constitutions?
400
The name of the case that provides that trade and commerce do not prima facie include mere production or manufacture
What is Grannall v Marrickville Margarine?
400
The name of the case that held that the Commonwealth could regulate extraterritorial matters under s 51(xxix) without the requirement of a nexus between the Commonwealth and that matter.
What is Polyukhovich v Commonwealth?
400
For this type of head of power there needs to be a sufficient connection between the law and the head of power
What is a 'subject matter' head of power?
400
This is a feature that is missing from the Australian Constitution that is found in most other constitutions.
What is a bill (or charter) of rights?
500
The name of the case that held the Cth Parliament can impose any conditions it thinks fit on export or import.
What is Murphyores Inc Pty Ltd v Commonwealth (the Sand Island case)?
500
The three negative indicia of a tax.
What are 1) payment/fee for services rendered (including fees for privileges and statutory licenses); 2) a penalty and 3) an arbitrary tax?
500
The name of the case that questioned the validity of the implementation of a number of provisions from the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1966.
What is Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen?
500
128.
What are the number of sections in the Australian Constitution?
500
This country does not have a 'written' constitution.
What is the United Kingdom?