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It is the second constitution of the Irish state since independence, replacing the 1922 Constitution of the Irish Free State. [1] It came into force on 29 December 1937 following a statewide plebiscite held on 1 July 1937. The Constitution may be amended solely by a national referendum. [2]
The law of the Republic of Ireland consists of constitutional, statutory, and common law. The highest law in the State is the Constitution of Ireland, from which all other law derives its authority. The Republic has a common-law legal system with a written constitution that provides for a parliamentary democracy similar to the British ...
1,775,055. 75.84%. Results by Dáil Constituency. The current Constitution of Ireland came into effect on 29 December 1937, repealing and replacing the Constitution of the Irish Free State, having been approved in a national plebiscite on 1 July 1937 with the support of 56.5% of voters in the then Irish Free State. [ 1][ 2] The Constitution was ...
The Constitution of the Irish Free State ( Irish: Bunreacht Shaorstát Éireann) was adopted by Act of Dáil Éireann sitting as a constituent assembly on 25 October 1922. In accordance with Article 83 of the Constitution, [ 1] the Irish Free State Constitution Act 1922 of the British Parliament, which came into effect upon receiving the royal ...
Constitutional Convention (Ireland) The Convention on the Constitution (Irish: An Coinbhinsiún ar an mBunreacht) [1] was established in Ireland in 2012 to discuss proposed amendments to the Constitution of Ireland. [2][3] More commonly called simply the Constitutional Convention, it met for the first time 1 December 2012 and sat until 31 March ...
t. e. Amendments to the Constitution of Ireland are only possible by way of referendum. A proposal to amend the Constitution of Ireland must be initiated as a bill in Dáil Éireann, be passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas (parliament), then submitted to a referendum, and finally signed into law by the president of Ireland.
59.95%. The Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Act 2004 (previously bill no. 15 of 2004) amended the Constitution of Ireland to limit the constitutional right to Irish citizenship of individuals born on the island of Ireland to the children of at least one Irish citizen and the children of at least one parent who is, at the time of ...
Crotty v An Taoiseach[1] was a landmark 1987 decision of the Irish Supreme Court which found that Ireland could not ratify the Single European Act unless the Irish Constitution was first changed to permit its ratification. The case, taken by Raymond Crotty formally against the Taoiseach (then Garret FitzGerald), directly led to the Tenth ...