James I and the anglo-scottish union project: anatomy of a parliamentary failure (1604-1607)
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Scotland, England, Union, James VI and I, Parliaments, Commons, Common Law, Civil Law, tracts of union, Borders, Bill of Union, Alexander Seton, Francis Bacon, Henry Savile, John Doddridge, Henry Spelman, Robert Pont, David Hume, John Russell, William Cornwallis, Edwin Sandys, William MauriceAbstract
In 1604, James VI of Scotland, newly crowned James I of England, launched a major project: the political and legal union of his two kingdoms. To carry out this project, he used a laborious process: two commissions - one English and the other Scottish - prepared a "Bill of Union", which was debated before two Parliaments - English and Scottish. The result, in both kingdoms, was a near-total failure barring some corrections made necessary by the Union of the Crowns, notably in the Borders. This article examines the causes for this setback, ranging from the ‘tracts of union’ and the strained relations between James and the English Parliament, to technical obstacles and national prejudices.
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