Constitution of 1782
| Treaty of Windsor | 1175 |
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| Treaty of York | 1237 |
| Treaty of Perth | 1266 |
| Treaty of Montgomery | 1267 |
| Treaty of Aberconwy | 1277 |
| Statute of Rhuddlan | 1284 |
| Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton | 1328 |
| Treaty of Berwick | 1357 |
| Poynings' Law | 1495 |
| Laws in Wales Acts | 1535–42 |
| Crown of Ireland Act | 1542 |
| Treaty of Edinburgh | 1560 |
| Union of the Crowns | 1603 |
| Union of England and Scotland Act | 1603 |
| Act of Settlement | 1701 |
| Act of Security | 1704 |
| Alien Act | 1705 |
| Treaty of Union | 1706 |
| Acts of Union | 1707 |
| Personal Union of 1714 | 1714 |
| Wales and Berwick Act | 1746 |
| Irish Constitution | 1782 |
| Acts of Union | 1800 |
| Government of Ireland Act | 1920 |
| Anglo-Irish Treaty | 1921 |
| Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act | 1927 |
| N. Ireland (Temporary Provisions) Act | 1972 |
| Northern Ireland Assembly | 1973 |
| N. Ireland Constitution Act | 1973 |
| Northern Ireland Act | 1998 |
| Government of Wales Act | 1998 |
| Scotland Act | 1998 |
| Government of Wales Act | 2006 |
| Scotland Act | 2012 |
| Edinburgh Agreement | 2012 |
The Constitution of 1782 is a collective term given to a series of legal changes which freed the Parliament of Ireland, a Medieval parliament consisting of the Irish House of Commons and the Irish House of Lords, of legal restrictions that had been imposed by successive Norman, English, and later, British governments on the scope of its jurisdiction. These restrictions had, in effect, allowed the Irish executive of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 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 Poynings' Law of 1495. These restrictions were lifted in 1782, producing a period of novel legislative freedom. This period came to be known as Grattan's Parliament after Henry Grattan, a major campaigner for reform in the House of Commons and leader of the Patriot Party.
The new constitutional arrangements proved short-lived in consequence of the 1798 uprising by the United Irishmen. By the Acts of Union the Parliament of Ireland was abolished, and the Kingdom of Ireland absorbed into the new United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with effect from 1 January 1801.
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