Scottish Government

ISBN 978 0 7559 5493 3

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Contents

Foreword by the First Minister
Summary
1. Scotland's Parliament
2. Extending Scottish devolution
3. An independent Scotland
4. The changing constitution in the British Isles
5. Legislation and referendums
6. A National Conversation
Annex A Reservations in the Scotland Act 1998
Annex B Draft Referendum (Scotland) Bill

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the
march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his
country, "Thus far shalt thou go and no further".

Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891)