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	Campaign for a Scottish Assembly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Campaign for a Scottish Assembly (CSA) was formed in the aftermath of the 1979 referendum that failed to establish a devolved Scottish Assembly.
		The CSA kept up the pressure for devolution in the early years of the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher which was totally opposed to any form of Home Rule.
		The Scottish Constitutional Convention was established in 1989 and it superseded the role of the CSA publishing its recommendations for devolution in 1995, many of which went towards the founding principles of the Scottish Parliament, established in 1999.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Campaign_for_a_Scottish_Assembly (229 words)

	Scottish Constitutional Convention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Scottish Constitutional Convention (SCC) was established after prominent Scottish individuals signed the Claim of Right in 1989.
		The CSA was an organisation of individuals committed to some form of Home Rule for Scotland that by the late 1980s came to argue that a convention was the way forward to secure such.
		Initially the Scottish National Party (SNP) participated, but the then party leader Gordon Wilson, along with Jim Sillars decided to withdraw the SNP from participation owing to the convention's unwillingness to discuss Scottish independence as a constitutional option.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scottish_Constitutional_Convention (309 words)

	Scottish Referendums
		The Scottish National Party (SNP) was one party devoted to radical constitutional change for Scotland.
		The Campaign for a Scottish Assembly was launched by home rule politicians, academics and activists in the immediate aftermath of the 1979 defeat in order to continue the fight.
		However, some Scottish Tories are personally in favour of a devolved parliament as a means of reviving their fortunes in Scotland.
	www.bbc.co.uk /politics97/devolution/scotland/briefing/c20scot.shtml (2002 words)

	The Claim of Right of 1988 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A declaration was signed in the Kirk's Assembly Halls on the Mound in Edinburgh on the 30 th of March, 1989 - in the same room where the Covenant had been signed by the Duke of Montrose and others 40 years previously.
		He had given the campaign a public voice in his admirable magazine, Radical Scotland, and he was ingenious in devising the machinery and establishing contacts with the political parties.
		Discussions between the CSA and the political parties began immediately after the publication of the report to see if they were willing to create a convention either by direct elections, or by involving existing elected MPs and councillors, or in some other way.
	www.alba.org.uk /devolution/claimofright.html (1595 words)

	lion&lamb: Back Issue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		After the crushing disappointment of the 1979 referendum and election, it was the Scottish cultural renaissance of the 1980s and the cross-party campaign for a Scottish Assembly which kept hopes for constitutional change alive, not the political parties.
		After the 1987 election, it was the initiative of that cross-party campaign, including the trades unions and churches, which led the parties into a Scottish Constitutional Convention, a consensual body which reached an agreed scheme for a Parliament: the blueprint for the current Scottish bill passing through Westminister.
		Both the Scottish Parliament and Scottish churches must come to terms with the new post-modern political and cultural reality, that there is a third partner affecting their relationship, a resurgent civic society of active citizens and autonomous persons.
	www.econi.org /LionLamb/022/cost.html (2494 words)

	Nationalism, Scotland and Parties Up in Arms
		No longer faced with the threat of a violent Scottish uprising, the modern UK has still been besieged periodically by the so-called 'tartan army.' While this catch-all term for the various terrorist groups may offer them far more importance than they deserve, it does belie their aims, which are quite clear.
		The regime's solution to the problem of Scottish dissent both inside and outside the party was to "keep dousing the natives with radical legislation," assuming that the Scots would convert to the regime's ideology; it proved "singularly ineffective," and enraged the North even as it converted the South.
		The Campaign for a Scottish Assembly (CSA) was established in the spring of 1980.
	www.hfienberg.com /scots/490nationalism.html (5516 words)

	Scotland - A Concise History - To Be or Not To Be
		Scottish factories, yards and foundries made a massive contribution to the British war effort, while the Clyde estuary became the major anchorage for merchant ships arriving in convoys, bringing food, materials and troops from around the world, especially from America and Canada.
		Scottish voters were in fact beginning to behave in a very different fashion from their English counterparts.
		In 1966 Scottish voters clearly trusted Labour to extend prosperity to Scotland, and their disappointment was intense when the new Labour government promptly faced yet another economic crisis, which they sought to meet by using the same methods as those employed by the Conservatives.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/scotland/chap12.htm (5897 words)

	Questions and Answers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Scottish National Party argues Scotland's case for independence and speaks up for Scotland on a daily basis in three main institutions (The UK Westminster Parliament in London, the devolved Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, and the European Parliament in Brussels & Strasbourg).
		Their 1999 Scottish Parliament manifesto included the promise that "Green MSPs will support a referendum on greater independence for Scotland and would campaign for a continuing process of decentralisation of power".
		The Scottish Socialist Party also campaigned in 1999 with a manifesto commitment to in favour of a "a fully independent government in Scotland which has powers over the economy; the welfare state; taxation; employment and company law; overseas trade; interest rates; exchange rates; and defence".
	website.lineone.net /~scottishfreedom/mainindexquestions.html (1536 words)

	ch 1
		The Scottish Parliament did not until 1690 assume a dominant position in Scottish life, and was never a sovereign parliament but only one of a number of rivals competing for the exercise of power.
		Scottish nationality was to be secured by national institutions such as the legal system, the courts and the Scottish Church, the Kirk, and not by the Scottish parliament.
		In 1885 the government introduced the Scottish Office and the Scottish Secretary was given Cabinet rank in 1926, as a response to perceived deficiencies in dealing with Scottish affairs.
	freespace.virgin.net /tr.kelly/ch1.htm (1994 words)

	North East NO Campaign - our case against an elected regional assembly
		All the people behind the No Campaign are born and bred in the region and the supporters of the Campaign care deeply about the North East.
		And, will there be local assembly members, or will we suffer the same imposition as has happened with some of the MP's in the North Eastimposed on the region by the party but with no loyalty to the regionsuch as Blair, Mandelson, Miliband.
		Perhaps the Yes Campaign should tell us which local councils they consider incompetent and inefficient and then we can have a close look at what they appear to be doing so wrong and compare it with the councils that are successful.
	www.northeastnocampaign.co.uk /counteryes.html (1699 words)

	Getting it Together by Bob MacLean
		The Campaign had a vital role to play in building the cross party co-operation, which led to the formation of the Scottish Constitutional Convention.
		After the demoralisation of 1979, the then Campaign for a Scottish Assembly was a brave attempt to keep the flame burning and recover unity in the home rule ranks.
		The establishment of the Campaign for a Scottish Assembly
	www.luath.co.uk /acatalog/gettingitt_ri.html (780 words)

	Assemblies
		Given the pitiful turn-outs for the Welsh and Scottish devolution referendums, we can safely expect the same again – although the Act enabling these referendums does specify they should only be held if a sufficient degree of interest is expressed in those regions for such bodies.
		The campaigns are set to be supported by the very local government careerists who are already councillors and wanting to be better paid for their public service.
		Although these assemblies will be allowed to borrow against their current revenue, this power will remain circumscribed by central government in order to “protect people in the region from excessive borrowing which could have long-term implications for council tax”.
	www.worldsocialism.org /spgb/jan04/assembly.html (1301 words)

	Red Pepper archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Scottish Labour Party is seething with dissent ö all because of the system devised to choose candidates for the new parliament.
		She is a leading figure in the Blairite organisation, the Network, which, under the direction of Jim Murphy MP, organised the ousting of sufficient left-wingers from the Scottish executive to deliver the body safely into the hands of a coalition of New Labour and traditional right-wingers.
		The danger for the party leadership is of a powerful Scottish Labour Party emerging as a bailiwick of the left which would act as a rallying-point for dissenting elements in the party as a whole.
	www.redpepper.org.uk /cularch/XNEC.HTML (2175 words)

	Scottish Devolution: A Historical and Political Analysis
		As Archie Brown theorized in his article, Asymmetrical Devolution: the Scottish Case, "membership in the European Union means that a break with England would not be absolute."<16> With Scotland’s striving economy and claims to the North Sea oil, the EU may be the larger entity needed to replace the UK and give Scotland stability.
		By 1979 the Scottish public was bored of the five-year struggle that had become the Scottish Home Rule campaign and which had culminated in the Referendum.
		Many scholars wonder "would the Thatcher administration really have been comfortable setting up the devolved Assembly she and her party had fought so bitterly under her leadership in Opposition?"<19> Also missing from the Referendum were the government funded umbrella groups present during the 1975 Referendum on whether or not to join the European Community.
	www.loyno.edu /history/journal/1998-9/Rivera.htm (3340 words)

	Marxist Bulletin: New Scotland, New Wales
		In Scotland, Labour campaigned for a ‘Yes, Yes’ vote on the grounds that it would strengthen the United Kingdom; the Scottish Nationalist Party claims that the same result was a step towards full independence for Scotland.
		This could mean that the bourgeoisie in Wales is even closer to their English counterparts than the Scottish bourgeoisie is, and in fact the voting patterns reflected this with ‘no’ votes significantly stronger in the parts of Wales geographically nearest to England.
		Ultimately we are not against some form of devolved assemblies – but regional workers’ councils with real democracy and power should be our aim, not yet more bourgeois parliaments that serve to legitimise and protect the system of exploitation and repression that we all live under at present.
	www.bolshevik.org /mb/4national.htm (1452 words)

	Moving Towards Devolution
		The Conservative Party posed threats to the Scottish way of doing things in education and health and she seemed unconcerned by interfering with long held traditions in these sectors.
		The argued vehemently that a Scottish Assembly would prevent the fiasco of having to put up with a Conservative government even though Labour normally won the most of the Scottish seats.
		Another group known as the Campaign for a Scottish Assembly was actively seeking home-rule.
	scottishfreedom.net /poldevomove.html (1094 words)

	Aspect: The Campaigns for a Scottish Parliament
		Increasingly Scottish political representation was regarded as marginalised, as the governing party in Westminster had to fill Scottish political institutions with MPs from English constituencies.
		The success of pro-devolution forces in the 1997 referendum was based upon the broad range of support for the creation of a Scottish parliament and was characterised by a level of cross-party support previously not seen within the campaigns for Scottish self-government.
		Despite earlier demands for action on Scottish self-government, it was not until the success of the SNP in local and by-elections in the late 1960s that Harold Wilson's government established a royal commission on the constitution in 1969.
	gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk /aspect/docs/aspectcampaigns.htm (2133 words)

	Siol nan Gaidheal - Ruairidh Erskine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Erskine’s greatest contribution was to the struggle for autonomous Scottish literature and for a Gaelic resurgence.
		MacLean became increasingly caught up in the turmoil of the Brit Left’s involvement in the Scottish worker’s movement, with their counterproductive continued sectarianism and Erskine was left alone to forge the campaign strategy of the new Scottish National League sing the slogan - "Scotland a Free State Again!" to build support for Scottish Independence.
		The Scottish people must be separated from their present abiding downward course of economic and cultural decline and this can only be done when Scotland is no longer imprisoned in the degenerate British State.
	www.siol-nan-gaidheal.com /erskine.htm (529 words)

	SCC Final Document
		All the same, it is important to place the case for a Scottish parliament in its proper international context, as well as to argue for it in terms of Scotland's own historical, economic, political and cultural circumstance.
		The Scottish National Party, although involved in the initial preparatory work, was ultimately unable to accept the principles of consensus underlying the Convention's aims, and therefore did not join its deliberations.
		These may be subject to alteration outwith the control of the Scottish parliament and it will therefore be necessary to ensure that separate boundary reviews for the Parliament can be carried through with the purpose of maintaining the size of the parliament and the integrity of the corrective effect of the additional members.
	www.almac.co.uk /business_park/scc/scc-rep.htm (10387 words)

	New Scottish Parliament
		On November 19, 1998 the Scottish people decided in a National Election to establish a Scottish National Parliament.
		The results of this campaign will be known of the 7th of May this year, when the results of the previous day's election are announced.
		The Scottish Parliament will be sitting in the Church of Scotland's General Assembly building on the Mound in Edinburgh for the first 2-3 years.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/all_things_scottish/18844 (305 words)

	Edinburgh Evening News - United’s the only way to meet Scottish political goals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		But amid all the nostalgic reviews of the 20th century, prompted by the Queen Mother’s death, independent MSP Dennis Canavan is urging his fellow politicians to cast their minds back just a decade to the "despair" felt in Scotland when John Major won a surprise fourth Tory victory at the 1992 General Election.
		Years later, it was also a cross-party campaign which helped deliver a Yes Yes vote in the referendum for a Scottish Parliament.
		The "new politics" of co-operation may not have won through in the Scottish Parliament yet, but the lesson of devolution history should encourage party leaders to give it a try.
	edinburghnews.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=389812002 (714 words)

	Undiscovered Scotland: Timeline of Scottish History: 1950 to Present
		February 1978: The Scotland Act is passed, but with an amendment stating that 40% of the whole Scottish electorate must approve devolution in a referendum.
		The Scottish Nationalist Party then tables a motion of no confidence in Labour Prime Minister Jim Callaghan, which it wins by one vote.
		The First Minister of the Scottish Executive, the devolved Scottish Government, is Donald Dewar, who as Secretary of State for Scotland since 1997 had been the architect of devolution.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /usfeatures/timeline/topresent.html (1263 words)

	The Citizen / Campaign for Socialism
		So far however, the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Party have stop short of embracing the provision of universal free school meals and are unlikely to change their stance when the issue arises again this year.
		The Scottish Executive are to be commended overall in attempting to keep some kind of social democratic policy agenda running under devolution but to make real progress in tackling poverty, they must consider much more radical, progressive, socialist measures and they must rethink their attachment to old Tory/ New Labour privatisation policy.
		Elaine Smith MSP is the Labour MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston and Convener of the Scottish Labour Campaign for Socialism.
	www.thecitizen.org.uk /articles/vol3/article28c.htm (1408 words)

	Chapter Five: Autonomy and Secessionism
		The SNP campaigned for Yes in the referendum in 1979, as did Labour and the Liberal Democrats.
		After the referendum, in which 74.3% voted for a Scottish parliament and 63.5% voted to give it tax-varying powers, a poll showed that 60% of Scottish voters thought Scotland would become “completely independent from the United Kingdom” in the next twenty years.
		Specifically, “a Scottish Parliament responsible for all Scottish affairs including economic ones, independent of Westminster which would be responsible for defence, foreign and international economic affairs” (Levy 1989, pp.
	www.acsu.buffalo.edu /~jsorens/chapter5.htm (6509 words)

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