Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Global Development of the Westminster Model
- 3 The Scottish Context
- 4 The Emergent Scottish Constitutional Tradition
- 5 2002 Draft I: Parliament and the Legislative Power
- 6 2002 Draft II: Head of State and the Executive Branch
- 7 2002 Draft III: Judiciary, Rights and Substantive Provisions
- 8 The SNP's Constitutional Policy 2002–14: From Liberal Procedural Constitutionalism to Democratic Populism?
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix A
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2017
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Global Development of the Westminster Model
- 3 The Scottish Context
- 4 The Emergent Scottish Constitutional Tradition
- 5 2002 Draft I: Parliament and the Legislative Power
- 6 2002 Draft II: Head of State and the Executive Branch
- 7 2002 Draft III: Judiciary, Rights and Substantive Provisions
- 8 The SNP's Constitutional Policy 2002–14: From Liberal Procedural Constitutionalism to Democratic Populism?
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Note: Section headings are not in the original manuscript. They have been added to help understanding of the text.
General Principles
(1) Scotland is a free, independent, democratic nation, the power to rule being vested in the Scottish people and exercised by them through a National Assembly appointed by a free vote of its citizens.
(2) All persons who were domiciled in Scotland at the time of the promulgation of this Constitution shall be citizens of Scotland. Thereafter the acquisition of and loss of Scottish citizenship shall be determined by law, but no person who is a citizen of any other country can be a citizen of Scotland except in cases where the National Assembly by a unanimous resolution shall confer Honorary Citizenship.
(3) Scotland is, in territory, all the mainland, islands and territorial seas which are subject to the jurisdiction of the Scottish Courts. The capital city of Scotland is the City of Edinburgh.
(4) All citizens have freedom of religious belief and worship and there shall be no discrimination on grounds of religion. The national church is the Church of Scotland by law defined in the Act for the Security of the Protestant Religion and Presbyterian Church Government in the Kingdom of Scotland, 1707, and the Articles Declaratory of the Constitution of the Church of Scotland in Matters Spiritual, 1921.
(5) The defence of the territory of the nation, its institutions and general safety, is the duty of every citizen, but no citizen shall bear arms unless called upon and authorised to do so by laws enacted by the National Assembly.
(6) The land and natural resources of the nation shall be fully developed and utilized in the interest of the commonweal. The extent of individual and corporate ownership of land and natural resources shall be limited by law, and all monopolies shall be regulated by the National Assembly.
(7) In the event of the business of a trading, manufacturing, industrial, or any other company domiciled in Scotland being offered for sale, there shall be a right of pre- emption in the National Assembly if the proposed purchaser is a foreign person or concern situated or domiciled furth of Scotland, and provided always that the price offered by the National Assembly shall, in the opinion of independent experts to be summoned, be a fair price.
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- Constituting ScotlandThe Scottish National Movement and the Westminster Model, pp. 207 - 220Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2016