The Crown preserves for us the rights, freedoms and responsibilities that we inherit from English law. Many Australians take for granted the freedoms and protections that are ours ONLY through the Monarchy.

The following very important documents and historical facts are evidence of the great value of the Crown to us, in protecting the rights and liberties of all the Queen's free subjects:

1. Magna Carta, 1297, originally signed by King John in 1215:

• Since then it has been signed by every British Monarch, including our present Queen Elizabeth.
• Magna Carta, Petition of Right (1629) and the Bill of Rights 1689 together form 'the Bible of the English Constitution', and are entrenched in our Commonwealth Constitution by virtue of Sections 108 and 118.
• Magna Carta gives us the basis for such fundamental privileges and rights as trial by jury, Habeas Corpus, equality before the law, freedom from arbitrary arrest, and parliamentary control of taxation. For those nations who have adopted English laws, it is their chief constitutional defence against arbitrary or unjust rule.
• It requires fines for offences to be in proportion to the severity of the offence, and never so heavy as to deprive a man of his livelihood, nor his merchandise or his implements of husbandry. No fine to be imposed except by the assessment on oath of reputable men of the neighbourhood.
• Clauses 30 and 31 confirm and protect our right to retain ownership of private property.
• Clauses 38 and 39 forbid verballing, wrongful arrest, exile, imprisonment, or the depriving of a man of his rights, standing or possessions in any way. No force may be used against anyone except by lawful judgment of his equals or by the Law of the Land (which was established by King Alfred the Great as God's Ten Commandments).
• Clause 40 guarantees that right and justice will not be sold, refused, nor delayed.
• Clause 45 requires that police, judges, etc., know the law of the kingdom and intend to observe it well. The Oaths of Allegiance and of Office sworn by judges, police, etc., are to require them to observe God's laws.
• Clause 47 is to prevent rulers or authorities dictating to owners re surrender or use of their land/buildings.
• NOTE: In signing Magna Carta, each monarch guarantees not to allow any part of these liberties to be revoked or diminished, and if any such thing be procured by anyone, it will be utterly null and void.

2. The Bill of Rights, 1689, originally signed by William and Mary of Orange:

• Since then it has been signed by every British Monarch, including our present Queen Elizabeth.
• This Bill of Rights was to stop excessive bail and excessive fines being levied, as well as illegal and cruel punishments being inflicted, all of which contradict the known laws, statutes and freedoms of the realm.
• Clause 7 ruled it was necessary for the public safety that people have arms for defence, and that arms that have been seized be restored. [Note by RJ: All the recent gun laws are in breach of this entrenched law and must be repealed..]
• Clause 9 protects freedom of speech, debates and proceedings in Parliament from action in any court outside Parliament. [NOTE: Clause 15 requires every Monarch to swear to maintain the Protestant reformed religion.]

3. The Coronation Oath, the pledge sworn by every British Monarch for the last 1000 years:

• Since Federation every Monarch of Australia has sworn that they will promote through their governments the Laws of God and the Gospel of Christ, in keeping with our legal status as ' a Christian nation.'
• This solemn oath was made on the Bible by our present Queen during the Christian Coronation Service in Westminster Abbey on 2/6/53. The Archbishop asked the Queen the question:
• "Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the Laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel?"
• The Queen answered, "All this I promise to do." Her Majesty then made her solemn oath on the Bible, saying: "The things which I have here before promised I will perform and keep. SO HELP ME GOD."

4. The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia:

• The Preamble is an Act of the British Parliament, and therefore it cannot be changed by Australia. It defines the Federation of the States as being "indissoluble", i.e. permanent forever under the Crown.
• Australia is constituted a multi-racial, but mono-cultural, Christian country (following the pattern of the heavenly kingdom of Christ). The Preamble to the Constitution confirms this by the words "humbly relying on the blessing of Almighty God" - which were inserted after massive petitions by the people to do so.
• Our Constitution does not use the republican term ' Head of State'. Section 1 makes the Queen part of Parliament, Section 61 vests ' executive power' in the Queen, and Sections 2 and 5 give powers to the Governor-General as the Queen's appointed representative. He is the Queen's representative to act on her behalf. Parliamentarians are the people's representatives, to act on our behalf. Under the Constitution Jesus Christ is our Head of State and Sovereign Lawgiver, but our rulers do not want Christ to rule over them. (As in Christ's parable of the Kingdom)
• Sections 108 and 118 of the Constitution together ensure that all the inherited laws of each State remain in force forever because they were entrenched in State Law prior to federation. More recently each State passed Acts similar to Queensland's Imperial Acts Application Act of 1984, for the purpose of acknowledging and confirming the continuity of such laws as Magna Carta, 1297, the Bill of Rights, 1689, Habeas Corpus, the Act of Settlement, etc.
• These inherited laws give Australians protection from oppressive government, for they bind all our Monarchs, Governors, Ministers of the Crown, Parliamentarians, Judges, Police, Local Government Councillors, Public Servants, etc., to exercise their authority only under God - no one else, and certainly not the UN.
• This protection will be lost if we remove the Crown and thus destroy the Constitution and Federation.

5. The Original Australian Citizenship Oath:

• It used words based on those entrenched in the Constitution and in the Bill of Rights.
• It required a genuine pledge of allegiance to our Christian Heritage and Constitutional Monarchy.
• The traditional rights and responsibilities under this Oath have already been dispensed with by disloyal pro-republicans, and alternative unconstitutional republican-friendly wording has been substituted.
  See Comparison of Citizenship Oaths below.

6. The unchangeable legal headship of Jesus Christ, Australia's Sovereign Lawmaker:

• It shows the supremacy of the Bible, God's Laws, and the Gospel of Christ over the Monarch and over all others who are ordained by God to exercise authority under Christ as officials in this nation.
• Evidence of this is seen in the wording used in the Constitution, the Queen's Coronation Oath, the various Oaths of Allegiance, Oaths of Office, etc. All Oaths finish with the words "SO HELP ME GOD", and the Q'ld. Oath of Office and many Government Gazette entries are dated "in the Year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ..."
• As subjects we are citizens of a Christian nation, and our laws must therefore conform to the Ten Commandments. Of course we do not attain salvation by obedience to the law, but solely by the grace of God through Jesus Christ, who said "No man comes to the Father but by Me." The value to us of national adherence to the Ten Commandments is a just and orderly society in which Christians have freedom to preach the Gospel without harrassment.