Devolution to Scotland and Wales represents a major constitutional change in the United Kingdom. It responds to changes in British politics and in Europe, which have necessitated a renegotiation of the union that underpins the United Kingdom. The Scottish proposals are more radical than those...

The premodern European state was asymmetrical and differentiated. From the nineteenth century, with the rise of democracy, the penetration of the state into society and later the demand for distributive equity, asymmetry was less acceptable. Nonetheless, asymmetrical elements remained, and...