Quote Originally Posted by Rhyfhylwyr View Post
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Scotland was not a nation, it was a feudal kingdom
Signed with another feudal kingdom who both had kingship as an idea and parliments that agitated on matters relating to the future of said monarchies.

And I don't see how internation law can come into it given that the Union happened before any (modern) concept of international law existed.
Why not?? I see no contradiction in updating our understanding of a person/country/thing/treaty etc the Union was signed due to various international and local factors which people felt moved to legislate for. If there is a need for everything to have a supposedly modern concept as you claim then the Act of Union is by implication out of date.

Since many of these origanal motivating factors do not exist or have no relevance today we must ask why the Act of Union is apparently sacrosanct.
The answer will not be independence in my view purely on mathematical grounds, granted a sizeable vote may go yes but the Union is in no danger.

I cant for the life of me figure exactly what Unionists are worried about even if the SNP wins, it is not as if there being abandoned to the electoral mathmatics of eternal opposition as would have been the case in Ireland. (which neccesitated in Unionist circles the creation of Northern Ireland as a lifeboat)

Surely all the other historic kingdoms that were annexed by larger powers and currently want independence would have more of a right to seceed given they were subjected purely by brute force?
And 80-90% of them would vote for the status quo or even reject having a vote entirely on grounds of annoyance.