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Introduction At the National Australasian Convention held in Sydney in 1891, Andrew Inglis Clark observed: the full ideal of Federal Government ... in its highest and most elaborate development, is the most finished and the most artificial production of political ingenuity. It is hardly possible that federal government can attain its perfect form except in a highly refined age, and among a people whose political education has already stretched over many generations.[1] Inglis Clark was quoting Edward Augustus Freeman, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, whose History of Federal Government in Greece and Italy, first published in 1863, was the 'classic nineteenth century exposition' of the city-state leagues of ancient Greece, and is still cited today by specialists in the field.[2] Freeman, who succeeded William Stubbs to the Regius Chair, profoundly shaped nineteenth century conceptions of federalism, although studies of Australian federalism have tended to neglect his influence.[3] While Freeman's reputation...

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