division_name: Scotland (Self-Determination)
motion: <p class="indent" pid="e696.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the Scotland Act 1998 to transfer the power to legislate for a Scottish independence referendum to the Scottish Parliament; to provide that that power may only be exercised where the Scottish public has demonstrated its support for the holding of such a referendum; to provide that no such referendum may be held sooner than seven years after the previous such referendum; and for connected purposes.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e696.2/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I&#8217;m standing up for the right of self-determination. I&#8217;m standing up for our territory. I&#8217;m standing up for our people. I&#8217;m standing up for international law. I&#8217;m standing up for all those territories&#8212;those small territories and peoples the world over&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e696.2/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The principle of self-determination has become a fundamental component of international law and is enshrined in the UN Charter&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e696.2/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The principle of the unlimited sovereignty of Parliament is a distinctively English principle, which has no counterpart in Scottish constitutional law&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e696.2/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the people of Scotland are distinct within the UK and have a right to self-determination&#8230;And as the people of Scotland are a people for the purposes of the right to self-determination&#8230;the choice of the means to exercise it is for the people to decide and not for the state.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e696.2/13" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;binding under international law on all states&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e696.2/19" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;It is agreed that nothing in this report prevents Scotland becoming an independent country in the future should the people of Scotland so choose.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e696.2/22" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;if I am to suppose a case in which Scotland unanimously, or by a clearly preponderating voice, were to make the demand on the United Parliament to be treated, not only on the same principle, but in the same manner as Ireland, I could not deny the title of Scotland to urge such a claim.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="">9 April 1889</phrase> Vol 335 c 101]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e696.2/24" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;no nation could be held irrevocably in a Union against its will.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="e696.2/27" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The Scots, being an historic nation with a proud past...have an undoubted right to national self-determination... Should they determine on independence, no English party or politician would stand in their way, however much we might regret their departure.&#8221;</p>