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The Scottish Constitutional Convention, Nationalism and the Union

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Roger Levy
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Government and Opposition , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , 01 April 1992 , pp. 222 - 234
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3 Quoted in Thc Scotsman, 10 July 1972.

4 Dalyell, T., Devolution: The End of Britain?, London, Cape, 1977, p. 43.Google Scholar For further discussion of the devolution debate, see also Bogdanor, V., Devolution, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1979 Google Scholar, Mackintosh, J. P., The Devolution of Power: Local Democracy, Regionalism and Nationalism, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1968,Google Scholar and Drucker, H. M. and Brown, G., The Politics of Nationalism and Devolution, London, Longman, 1980.Google Scholar

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6 Scottish Constitutional Convention, Towards a Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, 1989. p. 1.

7 Scottish Constitutional Convention, Towards Scotland’s Parliament, Edinburgh, 1990, p. 7.

8 ibid.

9 Constitutional Convention, Towards a Scottish Parliament, 1989, p. 16.

10 bid., p. 17.

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12 Constitutional Convention, Towards a Scottish Parliament, p. 5.

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14 Constitutional Convention, Towards a Scottish Parliament, pp. 51–52.

15 ibid., p. 20.

16 Constitutional Convention, Towards Scotland’s Parliament, 1990, p. 8.

17 Constitutional Convention, Towards Scottish Parliament, 1989, p. 21.

18 Constitutional Convention, Towards Scotland’s Parliament, p. 8.

19 Constitutional Convention, Towards a Scottish Parliament, p. 28.

20 ibid., p. 14.

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24 Constitutional Convention, Towards Scotland’s Parliament, p. 7.

25 ibid., p. 9.

26 ibid., pp. 15–16.

27 ibid., p. 10.

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33 Minute of the Convention, 20 April 1990, p. 29.

34 ibid.

35 Constitutional Convention, Towards a Scottish Parliament, p. 33.

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