What is it about?
The neo-jacobite expression of Loyalism in the late Victorian period became a principled challenge to the 1707 Union between England and Scotland. The demand for the restoration of the Stuart monarchy would require removal of the Hanoverians and offered a new constitutional alignment based on the principles of Home Rule All Round.
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Why is it important?
Restoration of the Stuarts necessitated the acts of Settlement and Union be set aside and thus represented a more fundamental challenge to the Imperial parliament than the constitutional reform sought by Liberal home rulers.
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The article examines those late Victorian loyalists who recast the home rule cause to advance the tenets of loyalism as their forebears in revolutionary America had done– within the day’s foremost democratic debate on rights, freedoms, and the limits of governmental power
Professor Graeme Morton
University of Dundee
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This page is a summary of: Loyalism, legitimism, and the neo-Jacobite challenge to the Anglo-Scottish Union, Atlantic Studies, August 2023, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2023.2247677.
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