Drafting the Irish Constitution, 1935-1937 Transnational Influences in Interwar Europe /

• Main Author: Coffey, Donal K. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Modern Legal History
• Subjects: Law-History.; Great Britain-History.; Imperialism.; Constitutional law.; Legal History.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; Constitutional Law.

The second of two volumes, this book situates the drafting of the Irish Constitution within broader transnational constitutional currents. Donal K. Coffey pioneers a new method of draft sequencing in order to track early influences in the drafting process and demonstrate the importance of European i...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Drafters of the 1937 Constitution
• 2. The Preamble
• 3. Nation and State
• 4. The Head of State
• 5. Institutional Structure
• 6. Citizen and State
• 7. Constitutional Transitions and Alterations.