Is it the “Last Chance Saloon”  for Northern Ireland?
 
In essence, the author is issuing a Northern Irish invitation to treat - an attempt to commence negotiations by advocating and soliciting, the Northern Irish citizenry to participate in the peace process. How? By completing what was started some twenty one years ago. This can only be done by the full implementation of the Belfast Agreement. The Belfast Agreement, mandated a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland. Why not submit your own draft Bill of Rights to any relevant civic forums and or on-line via social media. Feel free to use the author’s template and amend or change or retain as you think fit.  There has been a significant amount of work undertaken but is for the most part in the form of an isolated document or semi isolated documents, although cognisant to in some ways detached, from the Anglo-Irish NI conflict. It is the author’s view, that any Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland, must reflect a divided community emerging out of a long contemporary and historic conflict, together with the external past and present influences of the Anglo-Irish inconclusive power struggles. The invidious situational positioning of the Northern Irish population. The importance of building on the conflict resolution peace process and a commitment to a transitional justice engagement. A Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland must be invested in developing the conflict resolution peace process, in the first instance, by incorporating the Belfast Agreement, together with the constitutional principles contained therein and any agreed institutions supporting democracy. It is the author’s opinion, that the concept of consent can be developed into a concept of Northern Irish Constitutional Sovereignty, upward and flowing from the people of Northern Ireland. It is also advocated that this process may assist in the establishment of a devolved Northern Irish Sovereign Home Rule Micro-State. That is, a sub-national micro-state, as distinct from that of National State. Capable in accordance with the Belfast Agreement of being either a Home Rule Micro-State of the UK or the Nation State of Ireland, on the basis of agreement and consent. A mandatory border poll every seven years but with an option to delay for five years on a two thirds majority in the constituent Northern Irish Assembly. At the expiration of any extended five year delay in a border poll, the referendum will take place regardless. In the event of a decision to enter into unity with the Republic of Ireland. This will only happen, if the devolved Northern Irish Sovereign Home Rule Micro-State, underpinned by the concept of “Northern the Irish Constitutional Sovereignty ” and an entrenched Northern Irish Home Rule Bill of Rights and Freedoms, is retained, going forward, into Irish unity, as a devolved Northern Irish Sovereign Home Rule Micro-State of a new Nation State of Ireland.