What is the Claim of Right?
Answer:
Scotland was a nation that held power to account, that saw to the needs of the poor and the rights – not just of nobles – but of everybody. It tells of the right to rebellion against tyranny and of the care of a people for the education of the poorest as well as the richest. Of the right not only to justice that applied to king or a candlemaker alike.
Full answer here: The Claim of Right sets out a Scottish constitution
The Scottish Constitution from the Claim of Right
Author / Creator: The Estates of Scotland
Media type: Translation
Date published: 2022
The Scottish Constitution as derived from the Claim of Right Act 1689
The Treaty Bites Back A ‘ Forgotten’ Constitution, Scotland’s Claim of Right
Author / Creator: Sara Salyers
Media type: Discussion Paper
Date published: 2022
Westminster continues to pay lip service to the reality of Scottish sovereignty, while treating Scotland as subject to England’s constitutional parliamentary sovereignty, and hence dismissing Scotland as a distinct sovereign entity with its own constitutional rights.
The Claim of Right
Author / Creator: Sara Salyers
Media type: Discussion Paper
Date published: 2022
Scotland has a proud history of popular democracy, of human rights, of a code of justice and of a principle of equality.