Yale Lecture: The American Machinery of Government

Start Date
01 November 1966
End Date
31 December 1966
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MS 4936-Papers of Sir Robert Menzies/Class. Original Consignment/Series 6/File 402
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THE MERI CAN MACHIN ERY OF OVERNMENT  

COMPARED WITH THAT OF AUSTRALIA  

Your country shares with mine sort of passion for  

after-dinner or (horror of horrors) after-lunch Speech-making! Â«  

In Anglo-American or American- Aus trali an societies, it is our  

 

oratorical habit to call ourselves "cousins", and to dwell  

upon the characteristics and principles we have in common.  

This is beguili ng exercise, because it is at once true and  

•a**·*·*'«*;« Â· -' .***t~"\'* "’·►.“  

misleading.  

Of course, we have great things in common; our language  

(with the occasional aid of an interpreten); much of our  

literature; democratic self-go verment; the rule of Law;  

the "Common law" itself. Australia and the United States are  

both within the inheritance of the English Common Lav/. We have  

similar ideas, and indeed instincts, shout the relation of the  

â– ' Â· Â»- ..Π-.·-; .--r ÎœÂ·. Î›^-βΓ*. :-.ν  

State to the individual, and,this provides us. with the basis of  

our notions of freedom. Add to these, in the case of Australia,  

Federal Constitution in some important ways modelled upon your  

own, vivid and imperishable association in two great wars, and  

the total represents an amazing community of thought and tradition.  

And yet, we do disagree, end sometimes misunderstand each  

other, don’t we?  

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