Drafting the Irish Constitution, 1935–1937

Transnational Influences in Interwar Europe

Donal K. Coffey (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XIII, 312 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-76245-6 (ISBN)

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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 influences such as the German, Polish, and Portuguese Constitutions to the Irish drafts. He also analyses the role that religion played in the drafting process, and considers the new institutions of state, such as the presidency and the senate, tracing the genesis of these institutions to other continental constitutions. Together with volume I, Constitutionalism in Ireland, 1932-1938 , this book argues that the 1937 Constitution is only explicable within the context of the European and international trends which inspired it.

Donal K. Coffey is Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

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.

"[Coffey] is almost unique in combining the skills of an expert historian and constitutional lawyer and with these two stunning books he takes this research to an entirely new level. ... Coffey has produced two companion volumes which are likely to stand the test of time as the definitive accounts of the drafting of the Constitution. These two volumes combine the assiduous attention to detail of the historian with the lucid and crisp analysis of a profound constitutional scholar." (Gerard Hogan, Parliaments, Estates and Representation, Vol. 40 (3), 2020)

“[Coffey] is almost unique in combining the skills of an expert historian and constitutional lawyer and with these two stunning books he takes this research to an entirely new level. … Coffey has produced two companion volumes which are likely to stand the test of time as the definitive accounts of the drafting of the Constitution. These two volumes combine the assiduous attention to detail of the historian with the lucid and crisp analysis of a profound constitutional scholar.” (Gerard Hogan, Parliaments, Estates and Representation, Vol. 40 (3), 2020)

Erscheinungsdatum	04.06.2018
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Modern Legal History
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 312 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	555 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
Schlagworte	1932 general election • Bunreacht nahEireann • Constitution Committee of 1934 • Constitution drafting process • doctrine of unenumerated rights • drafts of the Irish Constitution • Eamon de Valera • Fianna Fail • Fr. Denis Fahey • Irish continental constitutionalism • Irish political life in 1930s • John Charles McQuaid • John Hearne • Oireachtas of the Irish Free State
ISBN-10	3-319-76245-1 / 3319762451
ISBN-13	978-3-319-76245-6 / 9783319762456
Zustand	Neuware