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Author:   Laura Cahillane ,  Donal K. Coffey
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2024 ed.
ISBN:  

9783031461804

ISBN 10:   3031461800
Pages:   291
Publication Date:   13 March 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. The 1922 Constitution; Constituting a Polity.- 3. The Partition of Ireland and the 1922 Constitution.- 4. ‘The Supreme Legislative Authority Speaking as The Mouthpiece of the People’: Constituent Power and the Irish Free State.- 5. Opposition to the Constitution of the Irish Free State in 1922.- 6. The Representative of the Crown and the Governor-General of the Irish Free State: Text and Context.- 7. The National Language and Article 4 of the 1922 Constitution.- 8. A new Constitution; a new language? How the new Courts talked about the Free State Constitution 1922.- 9. ‘Environmental Stewardship’ and Article 11 of the 1922 Constitution.- 10. The 1922 Constitution as a failed attempt to break with Westminster tradition.- 11. Property Rights and Democratic Decision-Making: Lessons from the 1922 Constitution.- 12. The Civil War, the Constitution and the Collapse of the Rule of Law.- 13. Amending the 1922Constitution: how the process shaped the politics of a new state.- 14. What the drafters learnt in 1937 from the 1922 experience.- 15. The Afterlife of the Constitution of the Irish Free State: Constitutional Echoes in South Asia.

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Laura Cahillane is Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Limerick, Ireland.  Donal Coffey is Assistant Professor in the School of Law and Criminology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

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