“Far-reaching constitutional decisions”
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Supreme Court Judge and Chair of the Electoral Commission, Marie Baker, clarifies the Constitution does not say “a woman’s place is in the home,” but merely that mothers provide an “important support” to society and shouldn’t “have to go out to work” due to “economic necessity.”
Background Bunreacht na hÉireann became the fundamental legal code of the Irish nation-state in 1937 and has since been amended over thirty times. These amendments reflect the Nation’s, underlying, collective psyche as it evolves over time and under the pressure of modernity. Ranging from the acceptance of the European Union’s (EU) legal supremacy, to the […]