Notes
1. Sir Henry Sumner Maine, Popular Government (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1897), 88.
2. See Aidan O’Neill “We Need to Talk About the Referendum,” The Guardian 8 Nov. 2011 http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/nov/08/uk-supreme-court-scottish-independence (accessed 6 Feb. 2012).
3. Alex Salmond, on, “The Andrew Marr Show,” BBC 1, 29 Feb. 2012.
4. Portugal v. Australia, International Court of Justice, 30 June 1995, ICJ Reports, 90-106.
5. Advisory Opinion, International Court of Justice, 16 October 1975, ICJ Report 12-68, 55.
6. Alina Kaczorowska, Public International Law (London,UK: Routledge, 2008), 83).
7. See Antonio Cassese (2005) International Law (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2005), 74.
8. S.30 Scotland Act, 1998.
9. AXA General Insurance Limited and others (Appellants) v The Lord Advocate and others (Respondents) (Scotland), UKSC 46 [2011], 153.
10. Donald Dewar in House of Commons Debate, 12 May 1998, Column 257.
11. Reference re Secession of Quebec, [1998] 2 S.C.R. 21.
12. See Matt Qvortrup, A Comparative Study of Referendums (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2005), chap. 2.
13. Michael Gallagher, “Conclusion,” in Michael Gallagher and Pier Vincenzo Uleri, eds., The Referendum Experience in Europe (Houndsmill: Macmillan, 1996), 246.
14. Roger Mac Ginty, “Constitutional Referendums and Ethnonational Conflict: The Case of Northern Ireland,” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 9(2): 3 (2003).
15. Sarah Wamburgh, Plebiscites since the War (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1933), 98.
16. Arend Lijphart, Patterns of Democracy. Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), 231.