British Invasion of Scottish Rights. Douglas Young’s Speech in Paisley Sheriff Court on 12th June 1944. Why Industrial Conscription and Delegated Legislation are Unconstitutional in Scotland. [With:] An Appeal to Scots Honour. A Vindication of the Right of The Scottish People to Freedom From Industrial Conscription and Bureaucratic Despotism under the Treaty of Union with England.

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Two pamphlets by poet, classicist and, between 1942 and 1945, leader of the SNP, Douglas Young (1913-1973). Both relate to his 1944 trial for refusing both conscription and registration as a conscientious objector and reprint speeches prepared by Young for the court, outlining his belief in the illegitimacy of the law, arguing unsuccessfully that Scots could not be conscripted to fight abroad under the terms of the 1707 Act of Union. The first pamphlet reprints his speech at his trial, the second, that prepared (which the court declined to hear) for his appeal against the conviction. Both are quite scarce: Library Hub records British Invasion of Scottish Rights at 3 locations and An Appeal to Scots Honour at 7.