Assess the extent to which the Northern Ireland Government was willing and able to use its extensive devolved powers to develop distinctive policies between 1921 and 1972.

... QUESTION: Assess the extent to which the Northern Ireland Government was willing and able to use its extensive devolved powers to develop distinctive policies between 1921 and 1972. The issue of central importance within this essay, is to show the extent to which Northern Ireland was willing and able to use its new devolved powers after 1920 as well as the extent to which these powers were used. Within Northern Ireland, the 1920 Government of Ireland Act was deemed the most important treaty that set the foundation for partition structures. The key for working out what the Northern Ireland Government and its political structures were about could be established by analysing the main political institutions developed under the Government of Ireland Act. The first point to make is that Stormont had institutions and a Parliament. In terms of institutional structures what developed from the Act were the Stormont Parliament and the Northern

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