The final article of the constitution declared that it was intended to be a provisional document, in the sense that it was subject to amendment.
[8] After the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty by the Dáil on 7 January 1922, de Valera left office in 1922.
In order to implement the Treaty the Parliament of the United Kingdom adopted the Irish Free State (Agreement) Act 1922.
The institutions established by the Dáil Constitution operated in parallel with these structures recognised by the British government.
The constitution's close modelling of its institutional system on the Westminster system of government, specifically with the inclusion of a parliament from whom a ministry was both chosen and to whom it was answerable, has been noted by Irish political scientists and historians, notably Professor Brian Farrell, who suggested that the leaders of the new state stuck to a system that, through Irish participation in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the new Irish political elite had close experience of, and identification with, notwithstanding their radical republican rhetoric.