The Vestigial Union Northern Ireland’s Precarious Place in the Molten Constitution

With the future union-monarch stripped of the war prerogative in Scotland, the Parliament went further, passing the Act of Security of the Kingdom (1704) that side-stepped the English Act of Settlement (1701), which secured the Hanoverian succession; the Scottish Parliament would choose Anne’s successor north of the border.15 The English Parliament retaliated with the Alien Act (1705) that threate. [...] The overwhelming majority of Ireland – victims of brutal repression in the Rising of 1798 – saw the Union as the ultimate brake on their emancipation and political reform, and it remained the case until 1911, where the tables turned, and the Ascendency class and its plebian supporters became the rebels against the United Kingdom. [...] Newman explores the periodisation of the Irish Revolution through the mobilisation and militancy of Ulsterians during the Orange Agitation and concludes the period 1911-1914 constituted an Ulsterian Revolution, the catalyst of the wider Irish Revolution which contained two separate but inextricably linked parts: the Ulsterian Revolution and the Nationalist Revolution. [...] 18 The Vestigial Union: Northern Ireland’s Precarious Place in the Molten Constitution the UUC gave Ulsterians the means to organise in their interest, while the lack of a similarly effective organisation in the south left unionists in the three provinces to whither of the vine. [...] The government of Northern Ireland, including the cabinet, formed the executive and held the confidence of the Northern Ireland Parliament, specifically the Northern Ireland House of Commons elected using the single transferable vote method.