Constitution
Constitutionally Sound - CCC podcast
Author / Creator: Centre on Constitutional Change
Media type: Podcasts
Date published: 2020 -
Podcasts on current affairs by specialists.
Public attitudes towards the constitutional future of the UK: Analysis from the 2023 State of the Union Survey
Author / Creator: Ailsa Henderson
Media type: Report
Date published: 2023
Public attitudes to a constitutional settlement are deeply polarised.
Constitutionally Sound
Author / Creator: Centre on Constitutional Change
Media type: Podcast
Date published: 2020-
Constitutionally Sound is the regular podcast run by the Centre on Constitutional Change (CCC). The Centre's fellows are academics in the fields of political science, economics, social policy and constitutional law. They are based at UK universities and research institutes, with a network of international partners.
Building a New Scotland: Creating a modern constitution for an independent Scotland
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Government Document
Date published: 2023
This paper sets out the Scottish Government’s proposals for a written constitution that puts democracy, rights and equality at the heart of everything we do as an independent country.
Independence is both inevitable and impossible. A possible pathway to Interdependence
Author / Creator: Justin Kenrick
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
“We don’t just need a different constitutional outcome. We need a different constitution-making process.”
What is a Section 35, and how does it affect Scotland’s gender recognition law
Author / Creator: The Ferret
Media type: report
Date published: 2022
An explanation of Section 35 and its implications for devolution.
Constitutional reform: Controversy or Consensus on how the UK should be governed
Author / Creator: John Curtice
Media type: Opinion poll
Date published: 2022
A majority of people want electoral reform, and Scottish independence. Increasing support is being shown for Irish reunification and for changing the UK constitution.
Union with England Act 1707
Author / Creator: Parliament of Scotland
Media type: Act
Date published:
The Union with England Act 1707 from the National Archives
Act of Union 1707
Author / Creator: UK Government
Date published:
The Act of Union from the UK Parliament view point.
Union with England Act 1707
Author / Creator: Parliament of Scotland
Media type: Act of Parliament
Date published:
The Act of Union as recorded by the National Archives
The Act of Ratification of the Treaty of Union between Scotland and England
Author / Creator: Parliament of Scotland
Date published: 1707
A contemporaneous reprinting of the Act of Ratification of the Scottish Parliment.
The Scottish Act of Union
Author / Creator: Parliament of Scotland
Media type: Book
Date published: 1708
An almost contemporary reprinting of the Act of Union from the Scottish Parliament and the events leading up to it.
Losing our Independence
Author / Creator: David Heriot
Media type: Discussion Paper
Date published: 2022
There never was a glorious and joyous coming together of Scotland and England. Instead, Scotland was shackled to England to create a United Kingdom of Great Britain, a United Kingdom that was – and still is – firmly under England’s control.
The Path to break out of the UK – Scotland’s Forgotten Constitution
Author / Creator: David Heriot
Media type: Discussion Paper
Date published: 2022
The Claim of Right is a standing constitution that remains in force in Scotland today, under treaty and constitutional law. We can and should use it to withdraw from the Union.
The Scottish Constitution and the Constitutional Compact
Author / Creator: Sara Salyers
Media type: document
Date published: 2022
When we apply the criteria to the constitutional documents and arrangements of Scotland prior to the Union, (1310 to 1706), we find a core of self-consistent, constitutional principles which collectively reinforce and develop those expressed in the Claim of Right Act of 1689.
Claim of Right Act, 1689
Author / Creator: Scottish Parliament
Media type: Document
Date published:
The Claim of Right Act, 1689 as recorded by The National Archives and the UK government.
A Real and Ancient Constitution
Author / Creator: Sara Salyers
Media type: Academic Paper
Date published: 2022
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.
The Case of the Missing Constitution Or, You Have Been Conned, Pal
Author / Creator: Sara Salyers
Media type: Discussion Paper
Date published: 2022
The Claim of Right was a condition of the Treaty and the Union. In fact it was the pre-condition of the whole thing. It had been demanded by Scotland, agreed by Queen Anne and ratified by the parliaments of England and Scotland. It was a little thing known as a constitution, a set of principles explicitly described as being part of Scotland’s fundamental constitution and contained in the Scottish Claim of Right Act of 1689.
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.