‘The will of the people’: putting the referendum in the Irish constitution

In this month’s blog with voters due at the polls on 8 March to vote on two proposed constitutional amendments, Eoin Kinsella looks at how the referendum one of the core elements of our democratic system was embedded in the constitution.

In this month’s blog with voters due at the polls on 8 March to vote on two proposed constitutional amendments, Eoin Kinsella looks at how the referendum one of the core elements of our democratic system was embedded in the constitution.

Article image: Committee members of the Constitution Commission, responsible for the drafting of the Constitution of the Irish Free State, 1922
Copyright: This image is reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland, Hugh Kennedy archive (KEN2)