THE National Covenant of 1638 should have a far more prominent role in education as one of the most significant documents in Scottish and wider British history, an MSP has said.
THE National Covenant of 1638 should have a far more prominent role in education as one of the most significant documents in Scottish and wider British history, an MSP has said.
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ROBBIE DINWOODIE CHIEF SCOTTISH POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
Murdo Fraser tabled a motion at Holyrood noting the 375th anniversary of the mass signing of the National Covenant in Greyfriars Kirkyard on February 28, 1638. He said: "This remarkable assertion of the right of the people to make decisions for themselves free from royal interference laid the foundations for our modern constitutional settlement. It led directly to a brutal civil war across the British Isles, and ultimately cost an obstinate king his head."
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