Publisher:
Salvo
Alternative Published Date
2022
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Type of Resource:
Academic Paper
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The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland entirely overturns the long-standing picture of a desperate, illiterate Scottish peasantry groaning under the rule of despotic kings and nobles.
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Scotland has a history of popular democracy, (albeit far from modern notions of universal franchise), of human rights, of a code of justice and principles of universal equality that puts anything in Magna Carta or the English Bill of Rights into the shade.
This paper is a recording of the Scottish constitutional acts from Celtic times to the Claim of Right Act, 1689. There are many and they show a continuity of interest in popular sovereignty.
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