While Australia’s constitution was finally approved — ratified — by the Australian colonial people in 1900, the process of choosing the kind of constitution the people wanted began back in the 1850s and continued via the federal convention in 1897 to its ratification.
That choice, when it was finally made, was an informed choice.
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