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It guarantees certain fundamental rights, along with a popularly elected non-executive president, a bicameral parliament, a separation of powers and judicial review. It is the second constitution of the Irish state since independence, replacing the 1922 Constitution of the Irish Free State. [1]
The separation of powers principle functionally differentiates several types of state power (usually law-making, adjudication, and execution) and requires these operations of government to be conceptually and institutionally distinguishable and articulated, thereby maintaining the integrity of each. [1]
Anglo-Irish Treaty: 1922 [n 1] Irish Free State [n 2] Enacted the Constitution of the Irish Free State, which had been drafted by a committee appointed by the Provisional Government, and which was then re-enacted at Westminster via the Irish Free State Constitution Act 1922: 8th Dáil: Elected: Irish Free State [n 3] 1937 [n 4] State of Ireland ...
"The Irish Civil War and the Drafting of the Irish Free State Constitution: Collins, De Valera, and the Pact: A New Interpretation; Draft Constitution; Capitulation to the British". Éire–Ireland. 5 (4): 28– 70. Cahillane, Laura (2011). The Genesis, Drafting and Legacy of the Irish Free State Constitution (PhD). University College Cork.
The Irish government amended the Irish act in 1933, [9] and the 1937 constitution repealed the entire Free State constitution. [10] The UK Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ruled in 1935 that the 1933 Act had implicitly amended the UK Act with respect to the jurisdiction of the Free State.
At midnight on 1 December 1999, the direct rule of the UK parliament ended in Northern Ireland when power was formally devolved to the new Northern Ireland Assembly. On 2 December 1999, power was devolved to the North/South Ministerial Council and the British–Irish Council when commencement orders for the British–Irish Agreement came into ...
The Irish Constitution was enacted by a popular plebiscite held on 1 July 1937, and came into force on 29 December of the same year. [3] The Constitution is the cornerstone of the Irish legal system and is held to be the source of power exercised by the legislative, judicial and executive branches of government.
The constitution came into force on 29 December 1937, and Douglas Hyde, the first president, took office on 25 June 1938.While the constitution mandated that amendments to it would usually require a referendum, its transitory provisions provided that for the first three years after the first president took office, amendment would be by ordinary act of the Oireachtas (parliament).