Publisher:
Scottish Affaiars
Alternative Published Date
1998
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Type of Resource:
Article
Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)
13pp
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The deeply entrenched nature of Scottish civil society is a key factor in the current strength of autonomist politics in Scotland.
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No matter what adjustments are made in the constitutionalrelations between Scotland and England, conflicts between citizens over therole of the state in distributive justice are an inherent aspect of modern life,and modern states, especially small ones, have limited control over the global'contract' between capital and labour. We should hope that contending withparticular social contracts close to home, particularly the constitutionalcontract, will help Scots to imagine how to engage in new and larger strugglesover the social contract in the world abroad.
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