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Was There a Scottish Revolution?
The covenanting revolution declared what we would recognize as constitutional monarchy. The scottish parliament was doing very much like what the english parliament did in the glorious revolution. We laud and and look back on the glorious revolution as part of the great whig narrative of british constitutional history, perhaps because it stuck,. But we almost ignore the fact that these ideas hadn't just come out of nowhere. They've been around for decades. And they want to see a society made anew. They want a moral reformation. That dimension can't be forgotten in times of understanding what motivated peoplet take the actions they did at the end of t 16 thirtis doctor allan macdonald, was