Jan 13, 2024
You don’t think we have one? How do you think that the British State justifies its claim to a ‘UK Constitution’? Because it applies a set of criteria to various English constitutional documents and legal precedents from before the union and comes up...
Jan 12, 2024
The Claim of Right Act was passed, not by the Scottish Parliament, but by the Convention of the Estates. In pre-union Scotland, the Convention of the Estates was a legislature that represented the sovereign people of Scotland. Although a legislative body, it did not...
Jan 10, 2024
The Act of Union with England was the last Act of the old Scottish parliament. A similar Act, Act of Union with Scotland, was the last Act of the old English parliament. But there could be no Acts without a treaty first between the countries, an international treaty...
Jan 9, 2024
The union of Scotland and England could not be achieved with a simple act of parliament. Scotland and England were separate sovereign nation-states and to join them in a parliamentary union needed a treaty, an international treaty between the two countries. These are...
Dec 25, 2023
Whit’s A’ This Aboot? Aye, whit’s goin’ on here? It’s about the position we’re in: stuck in the UK with no way out. Unless… ach ye ken the story – we need to ask the British state if it’s ok if we have another...