Drafting the Irish Constitution, 1935–1937 (eBook)

Transnational Influences in Interwar Europe

Donal K. Coffey (Autor)

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2018 | 1st ed. 2018
XIII, 312 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-76246-3 (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.

Inhalt

1. The Drafters of the 1937 Constitution2. The Preamble3. Nation and State4. The Head of State5. Institutional Structure6. Citizen and State7. Constitutional Transitions and Alterations.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.5.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Modern Legal History
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Modern Legal History
• Zusatzinfo: XIII, 312 p.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
• 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: 3-319-76246-X / 331976246X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-76246-3 / 9783319762463