Now that President Trump is picking his cabinet and immediate staff to insulate him from the poor judgement of the Bureaucratic Class, while moving quickly to transition this Constitutional Republic unto a wise and sustainable direction: What is your immediate impression as to how ...
Roger Mac Ginty, "Constitutional Referendums and Ethnonational Conflict: The Case of North- ern Ireland," Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 9(2): 1-22 (2003).Mac Ginty, Roger, "Constitutional Referendums and Ethnonational Conflict: The Case of Northern Ireland," Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 9...
This year Ireland will hold a referendum on the issue of abortion. The date has not yet been set but the vote will probably take place in May. Since 1983, enshrined in the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution, there has been a constitutional ban on abortions taking place in the Iris...
respectively—were put forward. These guaranteed self-determination for the people of Northern Ireland, promised British government recognition of a unified Ireland if a majority of Northern Ireland’s people agreed, and committed Ireland to abandoning its constitutional claim to Northern Ireland in the...
In the History section, noted the passage in May 2018 of a referendum that removed the constitutional ban on abortion. Jeff Wallenfeldt May 29, 2018 Country Profile: Expanded country profile. World Data Editors Mar 28, 2018 Added cross-references. ...
For example, in 1979 and 2004, local government elections were held simultaneously with the EP election; as was a constitutional referendum in 1984 and 2004. It is diffi cult, of course, to ascertain what effect on turnout these concurrent polls exercise, but it is clear that Irish ...
“Rekindling smouldering constitutional and sectarian questions in Northern Ireland at this point is counter-productive; slow and steady reconciliation and positive mutual engagement in the North is what is needed by both parts of the island.”1 Ian D’Alton, a historian and member of the Southern...
Ireland is the only successor state to have emerged from the First World War to have preserved its constitutional democracy, and much of this is due to Dev’s instinctive conservative republicanism. When the Constitution came into effect in 1937, An Taoiseach appointed Col Moore to the newly con...
Sinn Féin wants a flourishing Northern Ireland to integrate more easily with the richer south. Unionist parties want the region to prosper so that people are not tempted to alter the constitutional status quo. Despite Sinn Féin pushing for Irish reunification, the new Labour government has made ...
But unionists have also been claiming that the Protocol changes the Constitutional status of N. Ireland and as such, should require Unionist consent. The beauty of having an unwritten constitution is you can have continual arguments about what is constitutional, and what is not. But if the ...