How We Should Rule Ourselves
This pamphlet is for anyone alarmed by the present British government.
It argues that the component nations of the United Kingdom can become true democracies only by declaring themselves republics.
The authors are Alasdair Gray, writer of fiction and pamphlets such as Why Scots Should Rule Scotland, and Adam Tomkins, Professor of Public Law in the University of Glasgow and author of Public Law and Our Republican Constitution.
Both are committed republicans.
HistoryEuropeGreat BritainScotlandLiterary CollectionsEssays
RELEASED2005
PUBLISHERCanongate
LENGTH57
LANGUAGEEN
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Alasdair James Gray (28 December 1934 – 29 December 2019) was a Scottish writer and artist. His first novel, Lanark (1981), is seen as a landmark of Scottish fiction. He published novels, short stories, plays, poetry and translations, and wrote on politics and the history of English and Scots literature. His works of fiction combine realism, fantasy, and science fiction with the use of his own typography and illustrations, and won several awards. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alasdair_Gray)
How We Should Rule Ourselves
by Alasdair Gray, Adam Tomkins
This pamphlet is for anyone alarmed by the present British government.
It argues that the component nations of the United Kingdom can become true democracies only by declaring themselves republics.
The authors are Alasdair Gray, writer of fiction and pamphlets such as Why Scots Should Rule Scotland, and Adam Tomkins, Professor of Public Law in the University of Glasgow and author of Public Law and Our Republican Constitution.
Both are committed republicans.
HistoryEuropeGreat BritainScotlandLiterary CollectionsEssaysPolitical ScienceHistory & Theory
RELEASED2005
PUBLISHERCanongate
LENGTH57
LANGUAGEEN
Alasdair James Gray (28 December 1934 – 29 December 2019) was a Scottish writer and artist. His first novel, Lanark (1981), is seen as a landmark of Scottish fiction. He published novels, short stories, plays, poetry and translations, and wrote on politics and the history of English and Scots literature. His works of fiction combine realism, fantasy, and science fiction with the use of his own typography and illustrations, and won several awards. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alasdair_Gray)
