by Sara Salyers | Jun 10, 2022 | Uncategorised
The Claim of Right Introduction For decades, professional and amateur historians have described Scotland’s political and legal character before the Treaty of Union as backward, feudal and divided. We were a nation, it seems, dominated by English-style nobles where the...
by Sara Salyers | Jun 9, 2022 | Uncategorised
The Scottish Constitution and the Constitutional Compact The source of power in Scotland is vested in the people, or community of the nation, who grant it conditionally to their rulers or government. This is known as popular sovereignty.1 The Community of the Nation...
by Professor Alf Baird | Jun 8, 2022 | Uncategorised
The Scottis Constitutional Covin (Frae the decree’d practeeses an documents o Scotlan afore the Treaty o Union accordin tae the staundart praisently applee’d tae thae o England.) The soorce o pouer in Scotlan wis an is vestit in the fowk, the community o the kinrick,...
by Sara Salyers | Jun 8, 2022 | Uncategorised
The Scottish Constitutional Claim The Claim in Context Among the central principles of the UK constitution, currently in force in Scotland as well as the rest of the UK, there are a number derived from early English constitutional documents and arrangements. There...
by Professor Alf Baird | Jun 2, 2022 | Uncategorised
The Scottish Constitution Scots are all too often left uncertain and confused when considering the critical matter of their sovereignty, and intentionally so; for any colonial power will naturally seek to diminish notions of native or national sovereignty that would...
