Editing Dáil Constitution (section)

==Amendments==
*'''1 April 1919''': Five amendments were made to the constitution on this day:
**Allowed for the nomination of the members of the Ministry at the same meeting as the election of the President.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1919-04-01/20/|title=Dáil Éireann debate - Tuesday, 1 April 1919: AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION - AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE 2 (d).|access-date=6 September 2019|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|archive-date=6 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190906094629/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1919-04-01/20/|url-status=live}}</ref>
**Allowed for the nomination in writing by the President of a President-Substitute in periods of temporary absences.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1919-04-01/21/|title=Dáil Éireann debate - Tuesday, 1 April 1919: AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION - ADDITION TO ARTICLE 2|access-date=6 September 2019|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|archive-date=6 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190906094628/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1919-04-01/21/|url-status=live}}</ref>
**Allowed for the appointment of a Minister-Substitute in periods of temporary absences.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1919-04-01/22/|title=Dáil Éireann debate - Tuesday, 1 April 1919: AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION - FURTHER ADDITION TO ARTICLE 2|access-date=6 September 2019|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|archive-date=31 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190831140234/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1919-04-01/22/|url-status=live}}</ref>
**Increased the maximum number of ministers from four to "a President of the Ministry elected by Dáil Eireann, and not more than nine Executive Officers".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1919-04-01/23/|title=Dáil Éireann debate - Tuesday, 1 April 1919: AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION - AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE 2 (b)|access-date=6 September 2019|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|archive-date=31 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190831140229/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1919-04-01/23/|url-status=live}}</ref>
**provided that twice yearly auditing of accounts would not begin until November 1919.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1919-04-01/24/|title=Dáil Éireann debate - Tuesday, 1 April 1919: AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION - AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE 4|access-date=6 September 2019|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|archive-date=31 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190831140236/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1919-04-01/24/|url-status=live}}</ref>
*'''25 August 1921''': The style of the head of the ministry was amended to "the President who shall also be Prime Minister", and reduced the cabinet to six members. The amendment also made further changes to the dates mentioned in Article 4. This made more explicit the idea that the head of the ministry was both [[head of state]] and [[head of government]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1922-01-10/7/|title=Dáil Éireann debate - Tuesday, 10 January 1922: APPENDIX 1 Dáil Éireann Constitution (As amended 25th August, 1921)|access-date=7 September 2019|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|archive-date=20 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191020095049/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1922-01-10/7/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Following the change to the Constitution in 1921, [[Éamon de Valera]] was proposed and elected as President of the Irish Republic, rather than President of Dáil Éireann.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1921-08-26/3/|title=Dáil Éireann debate - Friday, 26 August 1921: ELECTION OF PRESIDENT|access-date=6 September 2019|website=Houses of the Oireachtas|archive-date=31 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190831094242/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1921-08-26/3/|url-status=live}}</ref>