）协定基于一项动议，即，如果所有各方都同意北爱尔兰宪法地位只有通过自由民主选择才可改变，则人民可以自行选择效忠身份：英国人、爱尔兰人，或双重身份。
It was based on the proposition that, as long as everyone agreed that changes to Northern Ireland’s constitutional status could come only as a result of free democratic choice, people could assert their loyalty to their preferred identity: British, Irish, or even both.