Is there a constitutional path to Scottish independence?

Parliamentary Affairs

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 721-736

  Maccormick, Neil ^a  

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EID: 0034288089     PISSN: 00312290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pa/53.4.721     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. 1 R. Dworkin, Law's Empire, Harvard UP, 1986, passim.
2. 2 These are points on which it is material to dwell while there is public discussion whether or not to repeal 'The Act of Settlement'. Strictly speaking, the 1701 Act of Settlement regulates the succession to a non-existent object, namely the Crown of England, which ceased to exist in 1707. And it is the legislation that put into effect the Articles of Union that now regulates the succession to the Crown of Great Britain, or as it has become by later similar processes, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Great Britain and Ireland, now finally the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
3. 3 For a more extended account of these matters, see MacCormick, 'The English Constitution, the British State, and the Scottish Anomaly', Proceedings of the British Academy, 1998/101; also MacCormick Questioning Sovereignty, Clarendon Press, 1999, ch. 4.
4. 3 For a more extended account of these matters, see MacCormick, 'The English Constitution, the British State, and the Scottish Anomaly', Proceedings of the British Academy, 1998/101; also MacCormick Questioning Sovereignty, Clarendon Press, 1999, ch. 4.
5. 4 1953 S.C. 396. To avoid confusion, the leading petitioner in the case was my late father, John M. MacCormick.