DRAFT CONSTITUTION A typescript draft of a Constitution for Saorst?t Eireann, 77 pages, with manuscript amendments. Undated, no indication of origin or authorship, possibly a draft of the...

DRAFT CONSTITUTION A typescript draft of a Constitution for Saorst?t Eireann, 77 pages, with manuscript amendments. Undated, no indication of origin or authorship, possibly a draft of the Constitution prepared by a committee for the First Dail, late 1918 or early 1919. With a Preamble starting: 'We, the people of Ireland, in our resolve to renew and re-establish our State and to found it upon principles of freedom and justice, take control of our destiny, in order that Ireland may take her place among the nations of the world as a free democratic state ..' * 'Saorstat Eireann' translates literally as 'Irish Free State', but before 1922 the term was sometimes used to denote an Irish Republic.

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