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| The '''Constitution of 1782''' is a collective term given to a series of legal changes which freed the ], a ] parliament consisting of the ] and the ], of legal restrictions that had been imposed by successive ], ], and later, ] governments on the scope of its jurisdiction. These restrictions had, in effect, allowed the Irish executive of the ] to control the parliamentary agenda and to restrict its ability to legislate rather than promote the objectives of the monarchy. | |||
| The most punitive restrictions arose in ] of 1494. These restrictions were lifted in 1782, producing a period of novel legislative freedom. This period came to be known as '''Grattan's Parliament''' after ], a major campaigner for reform in the House of Commons. | |||
| The eighteenth-century ] is located in ] in ]. It was the first purpose-built two-chamber parliament, pre-dating the nineteenth century ] and the ]. It survives today in use as headquarters of the ]. While the chamber of the ] was dismantled after the Act of Union, the chamber of the ] still exists in its original Georgian design. | |||
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