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Scotland. --- Sweden. --- Iceland. --- Sveriges riksdag --- Pà̀rlamaid na h-Alba --- Scots Commission in London --- Scottish Parliament --- Committees.

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The 1997 Scottish Referendum confirmed the wish of the Scottish people for their first Parliament in almost 300 years. In this book Paterson draws together a collection of the key arguments for and against the reinstating of a Scottish Parliament.

Home rule (Ecosse) --- Home rule (Schotland) --- Home rule (Scotland) --- Constitutional law --- Home rule --- Scotland. --- Pà̀rlamaid na h-Alba --- Scots Commission in London --- Scottish Parliament --- Scotland. Parliament --- Scotland

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748617593);This important book provides an invaluable guide to the establishment of Scotland's Parliament. First published in 1999, this revised and updated edition follows the road to devolution - with fresh detail of the obstacles which stood in the way. In a separate, companion book, Scotland's Parliament: The Story So Far Brian Taylor analyses how the Scottish Parliament has worked in practice.With his unique insight, gained in twenty-five years of covering Scottish politics as a journalist, Taylor offers an analysis of the background to the most monumental political change in Scotland since the Union.In this book, Taylor examines the popular motivation for devolution - and traces the practical steps which led to the establishment of Scotland's new Parliament. In addition, he provides a challenging assessment of Scotland's political future: tackling the issue of whether devolution will content the Scots.There is substantial analytical coverage of the Referendum, the Scotland Act and the establishment of the Parliament, following the elections in May 1999. Written in an entertaining and accessible style, this book is ideal for all those requiring an insight into the underlying issues which drive Scotland's new politics."

Constitutional law --- Law - Great Britain --- Law - Non-U.S. --- Law, Politics & Government --- Scotland. --- Scotland --- Politics and government --- Pà̀rlamaid na h-Alba --- Scots Commission in London --- Scottish Parliament

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The first modern account of the advancement of political and religious ideas in Scotland in the years between the Restoration of Charles II and the collapse of royal authority under James VII and II. In the twilight years of Scottish independence, the Restoration period witnessed both the triumph of Stuart absolutism and the radical Covenanting resistance of the "Killing Times" immortalised in presbyterian memory. This is thefirst account of this fascinating and dramatic period in Scottish history. It begins with the widespread popular royalism that acclaimed Charles II's return to power in 1660 and concludes by examining the collapse of royal authority that occurred under his brother, James VII & II, and the events of the Williamite Revolution of 1688-90. In reconstructing the world of late-seventeenth century Scotland, this book draws on an extensive range of printed and manuscript sources, the majority of which have never been used by historians before. Amidst current interest in Scottish political and parliamentary history before 1707, this book emphasises the dynamic and characteristic cosmopolitanism of Restoration intellectual culture as revealed from a range of national, British and Continental perspectives. In doing so, it challenges numerous historiographical orthodoxies, and modifies conventional understanding of pre-Enlightenment Scotland. CLARE JACKSON lectures in the history of political thought at the University of Cambridge.

Scotland --- Church history --- History --- Politics and government --- HISTORY / Europe / General. --- Covenanting resistance. --- Political culture. --- Restoration period. --- Scottish history. --- Scottish parliament. --- Stuart absolutism.

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This book contains an account of the 2,352 families (close to 3,000 counting cadet lines) that had one member sit in either House of the English, British, or United Kingdom Parliament, the Irish Parliament, or the Scottish Parliament between 1660 and 1945 and was represented in one of these Parliaments by at least three members at any time between the Middle Ages and 2015. Nearly 20,000 individuals are included in the main listings.Information is provided about social origins, ownership of country houses, wealth, honors, offices held, and links with associated families. The list provides a comprehensive reference source for the governing class of Great Britain and Ireland from Oliver Cromwell to Winston Churchill, and offers a deep pool of data to support analysis of social, political, economic, and cultural history in the British Isles over the course of more than four centuries.The British and Irish ruling class was a political, social, and economic elite. It constituted a hereditary landed aristocracy, constantly renewed and expanded by commercial and manufacturing wealth, that dominated government into the nineteenth century, remained potent in the twentieth century, and helped shape the modern world. Volume I available here

HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General. --- British Parliament, Irish Parliament, Scottish Parliament, Wales, elite, landed gentry, House of Commons, House of Lords, social mobility, aristocracy, class. --- British Parliament, Irish Parliament, Scottish Parliament, Wales, elite, landed gentry, House of Commons, House of Lords, social mobility, aristocracy, class.