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 BIGGEST LIE
Author / Creator: Sara Salyers
Media type: Video
Date published: 2022
We have a king who is not a king .
A parliament thats not a parliament.
A bill thats not a bill.
A suspension of the constitution for 14 months including shutting the courts.
And while this is being done Westminster who are behind the plot suddenly find parliamentary sovereignty in a lucky bag.
WATCH THE VIDEO . YOU DECIDE.
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.
The Declaration of the Estates of the Kingdom of Scotland containing the Claim of Right and the offer of the Croune to the King and Queen of England.
Author / Creator: Estates of the Kingdom of Scotland
Media type: Document
Date published: 1689
The document containing the Claim of Right/
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.
The Treaty Bites Back
Author / Creator: Sara Salyers
Media type: Article
Date published: 2022
The Claim of Right Act of 1689 means that the Scottish people retain the right to prohibit government actions or legislation which compromise their civil rights and freedoms. This was incorporated in the Act of Union,1707.