Constitution
Preparing for the end
Author / Creator: Peter A Bell
Media type: Article
Date published:
That the people of Scotland are sovereign is both a constitional fact and an inviolable principle
How did we get here? The SNP’s unravelling political strategy and the 2024 UK General Election.
Author / Creator: Mark McGeoghegan
Media type: Article
Date published:
For the first time in eight years, Scotland will have an election that is not first and foremost about Scottish secession from the United Kingdom. Nevertheless, understanding the dynamics of the constitutional debate in Scotland, and particularly the SNP’s failure to secure a second secessionist referendum and the disarming of the SNP’s most powerful electoral narratives, remains crucial for understanding how we came to this place in Scottish politics.
On Surprises, Strategy, the Economy and What Comes Next for Scottish Independence
Author / Creator: Iain Docherty
Media type: Article
Date published:
Nicola Sturgeon's resignation as First Minister and leader of the SNP has thrown Scottish politics into flux. But beneath the superficial media coverage and frenetic party politics that followed her resignation, the fundamentals of the constitutional debate remain unaltered. One of these fundamentals, the extent to which Scotland is better or worse off being part of the UK political economy, is rarely debated in the depth it deserves.
Scottish constitution should include the right to free healthcare
Author / Creator: Jim Stamper
Media type: Newspaper article
Date published:
IT was hugely significant that the auditor general recently reported that poor mental health cost the Scottish economy £8.8 billion in 2019.
The SNP’s slow route to building independence
Author / Creator: Richard Parry
Media type: Article
Date published:
The Scottish Government under Humza Yousaf’s brief and unsuccessful leadership maintained some momentum on independence by issuing nine further instalments of their series ‘Building a New Scotland’ between June 2023 and March 2024.
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.
Best start for independent Scotland
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Video
Date published: 2024
How To Start A New Country
The Nation Talks, episode 134
Author / Creator: Daniela Nadj
Date published: 2023
Law Academic. Senior Lecturer in Law at St. Mary's University. Interested in women's rights, human rights, politics & discussing constitutional issues.
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.”
A crisis of democracy and public life
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
"We are living through yet another constitutional showdown between the Scottish and UK Governments.... The immediate issue is the Gender Recognition Reform Bill "
5 Things You Need to Know About Labour’s Latest Vow on Constitutional Reform
Author / Creator: Believe in Scotland
Media type: Blog
Date published: 2022
"Dishonest, vague, lacks solid commitment, and continues the Brexit power grab."
Renewing democracy through independence
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
People who live in Scotland have the right to choose how they should be governed
Scotland's New Choice: Independence after Brexit
Author / Creator: Eve Hepburn
Media type: eBook
Date published: 2021
Opportunities and challenges surrounding the prospect of independence for Scotland in the light of changes since 2014.
CAMPBELL II The second report of the Home Rule and Community Rule Commission
Author / Creator: Scottish Liberal Democrats
Media type: Report
Date published: 2014
The 2014 Scottish Liberal Democrats proposal for a Federal UK
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.
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 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.
SALVO Reclaiming the Scottish Constitution
Author / Creator: Salvo
Media type: Web site
Date published: 2022-
The Scottish Claim of Right was never extinguished by the Treaty of Union; rather, the treaty was and remains conditional upon the continuance of the Claim of Right in Scotland.