<Li> only very limited guarantees of personal rights (rejection of the US model) </Li> <Li> judicial review (US model) </Li> <P> This last feature--the ability of The High Court of Australia to declare legislation unconstitutional and therefore invalid--is itself the source of the body of constitutional doctrine examined in this article . It has its origin in American experience, where the right of the Supreme Court of the United States to strike down legislation deemed incompatible with the Constitution was first asserted by the Supreme Court itself in the seminal case of Marbury v. Madison in 1803 . Although completely foreign to both British and Australian colonial experience, the framers of the Australian Constitution clearly intended that the practice would take hold in Australia, and even expressly adverted to it in the Constitutional text (in section 76). This power of judicial review of legislation for conformity with the Constitution has been exercised almost exclusively by the High Court of Australia, and almost invariably with a Full Bench of all its members, perhaps most famously in the Communist Party case . </P> <P> A brief overview of the other listed features will provide a background for the doctrinal developments examined below . </P>

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