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Greenock, Scotland Katılım Ağustos 2014
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Scotland has a constitution. Its called the Claim of Right Act 1689, codified in the face of yet another threat of invasion. This time, William of Orange, a known psychopath, was demanding that Scots remove James VII for being a Catholic and make *him* king or face invasion. He sent them the text for a proclamation.
The Scots held an emergency election, called a Convention of Estates and, in record time crafted an Act. (With no monarch present the CoE was entitled to act as the legislative parliament in its place). They used some of William’s wording but instead of deposing James for being a ‘papist’ they said that *while he was a papist* he violated the Scottish constitution by claiming sovereignty over the laws and failing to take the legally required coronation oath - in which a Scottish monarch must swear fealty to the Crown (the people). That’s sovereignty of the people over all other ‘powers’ people. Then they deposed him and, because the ‘king’s parliament’ can’t sit without the monarch to call it, sacked his Parliament with him in the name of the people - the nation. And that’s sovereignty of the people again. Then they set out the rights and liberties of the people and the nation which no government is permitted to violate. (And they are bl*#dy amazing - progressive even today.) And that’s sovereignty too.
Then they made William swear to uphold the Claim of Right as a condition of his - and of every other monarch’s after him - ascent to the Scottish throne.
But it’s critically important to realise that the Claim of Right Act didn’t make anything up. It pulled together the most important of the formerly uncodified principles and ‘rules’ of the Scottish constitution; today it is the foundation of Scots common law.
The hierarchy of authority, limitations on government, fundamental constitutional structure and civil rights - that’s a constitution. Look up the text books on constitutional law if you don’t believe me.
The Claim of Right Act needs to be understood today, ‘translated’ into modern language then the few anachronisms can be removed and the ‘amendments’ (like the US constitution) necessary for the 21st century can be added.
Nicky@NickyZog
A newly independent Scotland would have the opportunity to create a constitution fit for the challenges of the 21st Century.
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A must read if you are at all interested in decolonising our Anglicised, rewritten history.
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New on Substack: England borrowed the money to pay for the annexation of Scotland. Then added it to the Anglo-British British national debt. Which Scotland was then required to help service. Scots subsidised their own takeover. There was no bailout. angrypict.substack.com/p/scotland-was…
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Israeli cowards and spineless barbarians. Bullying and slaughtering children. This is the IDF for you 😡😡😡😡🇮🇱🤮
🇹🇷🇹🇷 Hakan Boyav 🇵🇸🇵🇸@hakanboyv
Kendi evladın değil diye mi susuyorsun? Susma ! Lütfen paylaş.
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Scotland is the only country in the world too wee and too poor to be independent, yet big enough to provide the entire UK with oil, gas and wind energy. #ScottishIndependence
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Now do you understand why Scottish history, laws, common good, languages and even population had to be replaced by that of England?
Gille Iosa@IndieAnalogue
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