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The Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution Act 1992 (previously
The Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution was one of a number of amendments that have been made to expressly permit the state to ratify changes to the founding treaties of the European Union (then known as the
Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution Act 1992Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 1992Referendum Act 1992
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no. 12 of 1992) is an amendment to the Constitution of Ireland permitted the state to ratify the Treaty on European Union, commonly known as the Maastricht Treaty
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. It was approved by referendum
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on 18 June 1992 and signed into law on 16 July of the same year.
Overview
The Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution was one of a number of amendments that have been made to expressly permit the state to ratify changes to the founding treaties of the European Union (then known as the European Community
The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organization created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957,Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the ''Treaty on the functioning of the European Union'', as renamed by the Lisb ...
) (others have been the Tenth, Eighteenth, Twenty-sixth and the Twenty-eighth Amendments). These amendments were all adopted because of the finding of the Supreme Court in '' Crotty v. An Taoiseach'' (1987) that major changes to the treaties are unconstitutional unless accompanied by an amendment.
The Eleventh Amendment was introduced by a Fianna Fáil
Fianna Fáil (, ; meaning 'Soldiers of Destiny' or 'Warriors of Fál'), officially Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party ( ga, audio=ga-Fianna Fáil.ogg, Fianna Fáil – An Páirtà Poblachtánach), is a conservative and Christia ...
–Progressive Democrats
The Progressive Democrats ( ga, An Páirtà Daonlathach, literally "The Democratic Party" ), commonly referred to as the PDs, was a conservative-liberal political party in the Republic of Ireland.
Launched on 21 December 1985 by Desmond O'Ma ...
coalition government and was also supported by opposition parties Fine Gael
Fine Gael (, ; English: "Family (or Tribe) of the Irish") is a liberal-conservative and Christian-democratic political party in Ireland. Fine Gael is currently the third-largest party in the Republic of Ireland in terms of members of Dáil à ...
and the Labour Party. Democratic Left and the Green Party
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were opposed to it. Some anti-abortion groups also opposed the treaty, arguing that it might lead to legalised abortion in Ireland.
Changes to the text
The Eleventh Amendment amended Article 29.4 by the deletion of the highlighted sentence from subsection 3º: and by the addition of the following subsections:Result
See also
*Third Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland
The Third Amendment of the Constitution Act 1972 is an amendment to the Constitution of Ireland that permitted the State to join the European Communities, which would later become the European Union, and provided that European Community law wo ...
(Membership of the European Communities)
*Politics of the Republic of Ireland
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*History of the Republic of Ireland
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* Constitutional amendment
References
External links
Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution Act 1992
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