Michael Keating's The Independence of Scotland: Self-Government and the PDF

By Michael Keating

ISBN-10: 0199545952

ISBN-13: 9780199545957

After 300 years, the Anglo-Scottish Union is in severe hassle. this isn't due to a profound cultural divide among England and Scotland yet simply because fresh a long time have obvious the rebuilding of Scotland as a political group whereas the ideology and practices of the outdated unionism have atrophied. but whereas Britishness is in decline, it has now not been changed via a dominant ideology of Scottish independence. quite Scots want to renegotiate union to discover a brand new position within the Isles, in Europe, and on this planet.

There are few criminal, constitutional or political stumbling blocks to Scottish independence, yet an self reliant Scotland would have to forge a brand new social and financial undertaking as a small country within the worldwide market-place, and there was little critical pondering the consequences of this. wanting independence, there's a diversity of constitutional ideas for renegotiating the Union to permit extra Scottish self-government at the strains that public opinion turns out to want. the bounds are posed no longer by way of constitutional ideas yet via the unwillingness of English opinion to desert their unitary notion of the country. the top of the uk will be provoked, no longer through Scottish nationalism, yet by way of English unionism.

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