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2 ‘And the Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail Against Her’: Securing the Church in the Event of a Union
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‘Far from Being Against all Union …’ ‘Far from Being Against all Union …’
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Settling the Succession with Limitations Settling the Succession with Limitations
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The Hebronites and Confessional Confederation The Hebronites and Confessional Confederation
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The Cameronians and the Scottish Covenanted Republic The Cameronians and the Scottish Covenanted Republic
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6 Incorporating Union: The Search for an Alternative
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Published:July 2007
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This chapter discusses the search for a solution to incorporation and the promotion of alternatives generally referred to by contemporaries as federal. It observes that the search for a solution prompted a vigorous debate that reflected the diversity of interest groups hostile to incorporation. It further observes that while unionists rejected the ‘federal’ alternatives as impracticable and unworkable, most Scots were less dismissive and expected their commissioners to negotiate a federal union. It adds that the church was no different and, as their letters demonstrate, was as concerned as its people about the loss of sovereignty and the loss of parliament that protected the interests of the church. It reports that George Ridpath, a London-based Presbyterian polemicist, was one of the first to enter the fray in defence of Scotland's sovereignty.
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