The Case of the Missing Constitution Or, You Have Been Conned, Pal

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.