Highlands of Scotland
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Ancient Law
The region of Scotland whose clan chieftainship customs illustrate archaic patriarchal succession persisting into recent times.
The legal revolution was identical with that which occurred on a smaller scale, and in quite recent times, through the greater part of the Highlands of Scotland.
But the position of some of them, of the Celtic clans in particular, was sufficiently near independence within historical times to force on us the conviction that they were once separate imperia, and that Primogeniture regulated the succession to the chieftainship.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
A region of Scotland proposed as the hypothetical setting for a clan-based civil government used to illustrate the effects of favoritism in taxation.
Suppose, that at the period when the Highlands of Scotland were inhabited by a very few cognominal families, these families had united in a civil government by the names of tribes, either in the terms of the state or federal constitutions.