

#The Constitution of Sinn Féin


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The Constitution of Sinn Féin
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Author: Irish Commandants (whose signatures are appended)
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Electronic edition compiled by Audrey Murphy

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Professor Marianne McDonald via the CELT Project 2. Second draft.Extent of text: 1264 words#### Publication


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#### Sources


**Dorothy Macardle**, The Constitution of Sinn Féin in Dorothy Macardle The Irish Republic: a documented chronicle of the Anglo-Irish conflict and the partitioning of Ireland, with a detailed account of the period 1916-1923. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, (1937) page 915–916### Encoding


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Created: Sinn Féin party members

 (October 1917) #### Use of language


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### The Constitution of Sinn Féin: Author: Irish Commandants (whose signatures are appended)


Sinn Féin aims at securing the international recognistion of

Ireland as an independent Irish Republic.


Having achieved that status the Irish people may by Referendum

freely choose their own form of Government.




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p.915


### As adopted by the Árd-Fheis which

met in Dublin on October 25th, 1917.


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The name of this organisation shall be Sinn Féin.


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Sinn Féin aims at securing the

International recognition of Ireland as an independent Irish

Republic.


Having achieved that status the Irish people may by referendum

freely choose their own form of Government.


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This object shall be attained through the Sinn Féin Organisation.


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WHEREAS no law made without the authority and consent of

the Irish people is or ever can be binding on their conscience


Therefore in accordance with the Resolution of Sinn

Féin adopted in Convention, 1905, a Constituent Assembly shall

be convoked, comprising persons chosen by the Irish Constituencies as

the supreme national authority to speak and act in the name of the

Irish people and to devise and formulate measures for the welfare of

the whole people of Ireland.


Such as:

1. The introduction of a Protective System for Irish

industries and Commerce by combined action of the Irish County

Councils, Urban Councils, Rural Councils, Poor Law Boards, Harbour

Boards, and other bodies directly responsible to the Irish

people.
2. The establishment and maintenance under the direction of

a National Assembly or other authority approved by the people of

Ireland of an Irish Consular Service for the advancement of Irish

Commerce and Irish interests generally.
3. The re-establishment of an Irish Mercantile Marine to

facilitate direct trading between Ireland and the countries of

Continental Europe, America, Africa, and the Far East.
4. The industrial survey of Ireland and the development of

its mineral resources under the auspices of a National Assembly or

other national authority approved by the people of Ireland.
5. The establishment of a National Stock Exchange.
6. The creation of a National Civil Service, embracing all

the employee of the County Councils, Rural Councils, Poor law Boards,

Harbour Boards, and other bodies responsible to the Irish people, by

the institution of a common national qualifying examination and a


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local competitive examination (the latter at the discretion of the

local bodies).
7. The establishment of Sinn Féin

Courts of Arbitration for the speedy and satisfactory adjustment of

disputes.
8. The development of transit by rail road and water, of

waste lands for the national benefit by a national authority approved

by the people of Ireland.
9. The development of the Irish Sea Fisheries by National

Assembly or other National authority approved by the people of

Ireland.
10. The reform of education, to render its basis national

and industrial by the compulsory teaching of the Irish language,

Irish history and Irish agricultural and manufacturing potentialities

in the primary system, and, in addition, to elevate to a position of

dominance in the University system Irish agriculture and

economics.
11. The abolition of the Poor Law System and substitution in

its stead of adequate outdoor relief to the aged and infirm, and the

employment of the able-bodied in the reclamation of waste lands,

afforestation and other national and reproductive

works.



A special meeting of the Executive may be summoned on three days'

notice by the President on requisition presented to him signed by six

members of the Executive specifying the object for which the meeting

is called.


In case of an urgent emergency the President shall call all members

of the Executive to an urgency meeting, and may take action in the

name of the Executive in case he secures the approval of an absolute

minority of the entire Executive. The action taken is to be reported

for confirmation at next ordinary meeting of the Executive.


That where Irish resources are being developed, or

where industries exist, Sinn Féiners should make

it their business to secure that workers are paid a living wage.


That the equality of men and women in this Organisation be

emphasised in all speeches and leaflets.












