Say the referendum includes a question which proposes that Scottish devolution powers be substantially enhanced.
Scottish devolution evolved in the Scottish constitutional convention, a cross-party grouping, far away from Charter 88's Islington epicentre.
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The commission's final review of Scottish Devolution, published in 2009, called for Holyrood to take charge of half the income tax raised in Scotland.
The way Wales is funded will be examined in a UK government inquiry, similar to the Calman commission which proposed changes to Scottish devolution.
And finally, it was apparent in the campaign for the referendum on Scottish devolution, which was decided after The Economist had gone to press.
Sir Kenneth, who described himself as a Scot happily living in the UK, said Scottish devolution had now reached one of its most interesting points.
Speaking in a BBC webcast, Mr McDougall also said plans for the future of Scottish devolution would be set out "long in advance" of the referendum.
Ms Goldie welcomed the commitment in the Queen's Speech to introduce legislation to implement recommendations from the final report of the Calman Commission on Scottish Devolution.
This is the "Calman-style" commission that follows the commission on Scottish devolution whose report blended greater powers for the Scottish Parliament with more financial accountability to the electorate.
The Commission on Scottish Devolution, chaired by Sir Kenneth Calman, was set up jointly by Labour, the Conservatives and the Lib Dems, and its conclusions were supported by all three parties.
Mr Blair needs to clean up the mess in Paisley fast, or risk seeing the new Labour flagship of Scottish devolution holed by Old Labour even before it has left the slipway.
That prompted the report's author, Daniel Knowles, to defend his article, arguing that turnout figures in assembly elections don't suggest "bounding enthusiasm" and that the rise of the SNP had made people take Scottish devolution and the Scottish Parliament more seriously.
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The powers were inadvertently transferred to Northern Ireland and the Scottish Parliament at devolution.
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However, legislation would be needed to create the Scottish-style devolution settlement that Plaid said would give the assembly a broader range of powers.
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Nationalist policy - which he strongly endorses - is to work for Scottish interests within devolution, rather than striving to undermine the devolved parliament.
The cause of this activity is a realisation, both in the regions and in government, that the slow evolution of regional institutions foreseen in Labour's manifesto is not enough to deal with the consequences for England of Scottish and Welsh devolution.
The fact that the Labour and Liberal tribes are now agreed on a programme of constitutional change--including reform of the House of Lords, Scottish and Welsh devolution, and a freedom of information act--may help with voters, since the endorsement makes John Major's denunciations of constitutional change seem merely hysterical.
The discussion ranged over devolution, Scottish independence, Lords reform and beyond.
Under devolution, Scottish education is a matter for Scotland's Parliament.
For me, the top line was his views on devolution and a Scottish independence referendum.
Mr Mackay called for the full devolution of the Scottish Parliament and local government elections during the debate on 19 January 2012.
Scottish Nationalist Party MPs support the devolution of further powers to Scotland, but say the bill does not go far enough.
On June 15th a commission set up under Sir Kenneth Calman, once Britain's chief medical officer, came up with some ideas on how to improve the Scottish Parliament, ten years into devolution.
Ms Davidson said it was now time for her party to turn over a new page, adding that with hindsight, Conservatives were wrong to oppose the idea of a Scottish Parliament during the campaign for devolution, which was delivered in 1999.
To the discomfiture of Foreign Office diplomats (but not to Robin Cook, the foreign secretary, who is fervently pro-devolution), the Scottish parliament's ministers will be able to sit with British ministers at negotiating meetings in Brussels where Scottish interests are affected.
Since the devolution of powers to the Scottish Parliament in 1999, and to the Northern Irish and Welsh assemblies, the West Lothian question has frequently returned to the fore.
The Scottish secretary said he was confident more devolution for Scotland would happen, but said the UK government would not be bringing forward such proposals, arguing they should come from the "grassroots".
Mr McColl, one of the country's leading entrepreneurs, said he supported the devolution of corporation tax to enable the Scottish Government to set lower rates which would attract companies north of the border.
The commission - which will not examine independence - has been tasked to review devolution and recommend changes to enable the Scottish Parliament to better serve the people and "continue to secure the position of Scotland in the United Kingdom".
But Labour's white paper, outlining the devolution proposals, says that the British and Scottish governments will have to agree to a common position before they turn up in Brussels, which simply makes public the debate that has always taken place in private between the Scottish secretary and his cabinet colleagues.
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