Judge Lord Doherty, sitting at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, said: "The court ruled that the
Acts of Union were not an impediment to the MUP measures.
The recent devolution of political powers in Great Britain, which has produced a Scottish parliament in Edinburgh for the first time in almost three hundred years, underscores the central point of Leith Davis' felicitously titled
Acts of Union. As Davis argues in this timely study, the British nation that came into being in 1707 with the legislative union of Scotland and England was not put into place once and for all but required repeated "
acts of union" to stabilize what was (and has remained) an unstable national identity.
Leith Davis has done her homework admirably in
Acts of Union. Replete with historical detail, the book invokes theoretical discussions of nationalism by Benedict Anderson, Homi Bhabha, and others as well as its incorporation by writers such as Murray Pittock and Peter Murphy.
For that reason other
acts of union in a certain sense are incomplete and they receive their full moral quality with ordination towards the fertile act." In other words, the majority divides acts of married love into two categories.
Whatever the Acts are called they were Acts of incorporation and certainly not
Acts of union. The same could be said of those referring to Scotland and Ireland.
It is England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - with Wales at last acknowledged thanks to the repeal of the
Acts of Union of England & Wales (1536/1543) in 1993.
OF OF The
Acts of Union 1535 and 1542 gave the Welsh gentry equality with their English counterparts but condemned the ordinary people to justice in a language they didn't understand.
When this annexation was formalised by the so-called
Acts of Union (1536-1543) - imposed by the all-English government - 25% of the Welsh population certainly did not vote for it in a referendum - in fact zero per cent gave their consent to it.
Though the Westminster Parliament passed
Acts of Union which unilaterally took over of the governance of Wales in the 16th Century, and came to an agreement with the Scottish Parliament that led to the Act of Union of 1707, there is no precedent for Westminster''s deciding, on its own authority alone, that some or all of the governance of a part of the British Isles should be separated from the governance of the rest.
As with the
Acts of Union of Wales (1536/43) and Ireland (1801), there was no referendum!
The reason why Wales' voice is ignored is that Wales is still bound to England by the, so called,
Acts of Union, and Carwyn Jones is under the thumb of the English Labour Party, whereas Scotland has regained its parliament which is now controlled by the Scottish National Party who take a proactive view regarding its destiny and could be only a stone's throw away from independence.
Wales was annexed to England by the two
Acts of Union of 1536 and 1543.
