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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (An Tarbh @ Mar 27 2010, 08:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>
The most important part of the constitution is in the rights articles (40-45), which were drawn from various sources. They had little significance until the judges got their claws into them in the 1960s. Brian Walsh was the chief exponent in the supreme court, and his opinions relied heavily on the liberal jurisprudence of the US supreme court from the 1950s onward. Ask Mary Robinson and her fellow travellers in the law.
The newspapers always focus on bra-burning, hippies and anti-racist/anti-war demonstrations to show what 1960s liberalism was all about, but the judges (and financial regulators, taught US style) have had a much deeper influence on the way our governments dominate society.
You are identifying an enemy on false intelligence, while the real enemy has already overrun your position.
No no. First of all, you're exaggerating McQuaid's influence. About all he got from Dev was the article on the church: he was looking for exclusivity, but only got primacy, and in any case the article never amounted to much in government policy and was done away with by referendum. Most of the rest of the constitution was standard stuff for a bicameral system with a president - nothing churchy about that.
The most important part of the constitution is in the rights articles (40-45), which were drawn from various sources. They had little significance until the judges got their claws into them in the 1960s. Brian Walsh was the chief exponent in the supreme court, and his opinions relied heavily on the liberal jurisprudence of the US supreme court from the 1950s onward. Ask Mary Robinson and her fellow travellers in the law.
The newspapers always focus on bra-burning, hippies and anti-racist/anti-war demonstrations to show what 1960s liberalism was all about, but the judges (and financial regulators, taught US style) have had a much deeper influence on the way our governments dominate society.
You are identifying an enemy on false intelligence, while the real enemy has already overrun your position.
