He was also responsible, again along with Hamilton, for MacCormick v. Lord Advocate, the constitutional challenge over Queen Elizabeth using the title the second, rather than the first in Scotland — there having been no Elizabeth I of Scotland.

A court case, MacCormick v Lord Advocate, contesting the style ‘ Elizabeth II ’ within Scotland, was lost in 1953.

MacCormick v. Lord Advocate, which Hamilton brought with rector John MacCormick against the Crown, failed.

A legal case, MacCormick v. Lord Advocate ( 1953 SC 396 ), was taken to contest the right of the Queen to title herself Elizabeth II within Scotland, arguing that to do so would be a breach of the Act of Union.

Thus, in MacCormick v. Lord Advocate, the Lord President ( Lord Cooper ) stated that " the principle of the unlimited sovereignty of Parliament is a distinctively English principle which has no counterpart in Scottish Constitutional Law ", and that legislation contrary to the Act of Union would not necessarily be regarded as constitutionally valid.

MacCormick v Lord Advocate < nowiki ></ nowiki > SC 396 < nowiki ></ nowiki > SLT 255 was a Scottish legal action in which John MacCormick ( the Rector of the University of Glasgow ) and Ian Hamilton ( then part of the Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association ) contested the right of Queen Elizabeth II to style herself ‘ Elizabeth II ’ within Scotland.

The case was thus constitutionally interesting as “ the Lord Advocate conceded this point by admitting that the Parliament of Great Britain ‘ could not ’ repeal or alter ‘ fundamental and essential ’ conditions ” of the Act of Union .< ref > MacCormick v Lord Advocate < nowiki ></ nowiki > SC 396 at p 411 </ ref >.

However, the Lord President also held that " there is neither precedent nor authority of any kind for the view that the domestic Courts of either Scotland or England have jurisdiction to determine whether a governmental act of the type here in controversy is or is not conform to the provisions of a Treaty " and " it has not been shown that the Court of Session has authority to entertain the issue sought to be raised ".< ref > MacCormick v Lord Advocate < nowiki ></ nowiki > SLT 255 at p 263 </ ref >

# REDIRECT MacCormick v Lord Advocate

In the 1950s came protests against the use of the regnal title " Elizabeth II " in Scotland, as Scotland had not had an Elizabeth I ( see also the case of MacCormick v. Lord Advocate ).

* MacCormick v Lord Advocate

While the former concept has some support in law in the form of a dissenting opinion in MacCormick v. Lord Advocate, the second matter relating to international law has never been concluded by any international body.

The NPS was formed in 1928 after John MacCormick of the Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association called a meeting of all those favouring the establishment of a party favouring Scottish Home Rule.

MacCormick desired unity amongst the Scottish Nationalist movement and made contact with the Scottish Party.

The Scottish Party initially acted more as a think-tank than an active political party, but received overtures from the founder of the NPS, John MacCormick, to merge with the NPS to unify the elements of the Scottish independence movement.

Key figures in the formation of the FSN were Neil MacCormick and Allan MacCartney who would both later become SNP members of the European Parliament.

John MacDonald MacCormick ( Gaelic: Iain Dòmhnallach MacCormaig ; 20 November 1904-13 October 1961 ) was a lawyer and advocate of Home Rule in Scotland.

MacCormick was often known by his nickname " King John ", which he said came from a heckle during a debate he was participating in when upon a question from the floor whether a devolved Scotland would retain the monarchy or be a republic someone interjected and said that, " no, it will be a kingdom and John MacCormick will be our king.

Later MacCormick also took the decision to join the Liberal Party as he viewed them as being the party most closely allied to his devolutionist ambitions for Scotland.

MacCormick was survived by two sons.

However, in the longrun it proved unsuccessful in establishing the Assembly MacCormick so craved, and it would not be until nearly 40 years after his death until Home Rule would be secured.

In 1955 MacCormick had a book detailing his activities in the home rule movement published, entitled The Flag in the Wind.

McIntyre had joined the SNP in the 1930s and became a party's organiser when it was still headed by John MacCormick, but he resisted MacCormick's later attempts to change the SNP from supporting a policy of full Scottish independence to supporting a modicum of Home Rule.

MacCormick would leave the SNP in 1942 from which point McIntyre became the party's leading figure, becoming Secretary in 1942, then Chairman ( leader ) in 1948.

Former presenters include Peter Snow, a regular for 17 years, Donald MacCormick, Charles Wheeler, Adam Raphael and John Tusa, later boss of the BBC World Service.

Many of Hart's former students became important legal, moral, and political philosophers, including Brian Barry, John Finnis, Kent Greenawalt, Neil MacCormick, Joseph Raz and Ronald Dworkin.

He was also the campaign manager for the successful bid to have John MacCormick elected Rector of the University.

Sir ( Donald ) Neil MacCormick, QC, FBA, FRSE ( 27 May 1941 – 5 April 2009 ), or just Neil MacCormick, was a legal philosopher and Scottish politician.

In 2007 MacCormick was appointed as a special advisor on Europe to the newly elected SNP-led Scottish Government.

This caused the resignation of John MacCormick from the SNP and he formed the Scottish Covenant Association.

Initiated by John MacCormick, the Covenant was written in October 1949 at the Church of Scotland Assembly Halls in Edinburgh, during the Third National Assembly of the Scottish Convention, a pressure group which evolved into the Scottish Covenant Association.

It was formed by John MacCormick who had left the Scottish National Party in 1942 when they decided to support all-out independence for Scotland rather than devolution as had been their position.

MacCormick took many supporters with him, and set up the Scottish Union, which later became the Scottish Convention before eventually evolving into the Scottish Covenant Association.

* John MacCormick, one of the founders of the Scottish National Party, former Rector of the University

The merger was the brainchild of leading NPS figure John MacCormick who desired unity for the nationalist movement in Scotland, and upon learning of the Scottish Party's emergence moved to secure it.

In 1999, MacCormick was appointed Queen's Counsel ' honoris causa ', and was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2001 in recognition of services to scholarship in Law.

MacCormick was a Lecturer in Jurisprudence at the University of St Andrews ( Queen's College, Dundee ) from 1965-67.

There, MacCormick and Hamilton lost their case: it was held that the treaty had no provision concerning the numbering of monarchs — it was part of the royal prerogative, and that they had no title to sue the Crown.

A pivotal book on Hart was written by Neil MacCormick in 1981 ( second edition due in 2007 ), which further refined and offered some important criticisms that led MacCormick to develop his own theory ( the best example of which is his recently published Institutions of Law, 2007 ).

Born 27 May 1941, he was the son of one of the SNP's founders, John MacCormick.

Just after retiring from his chair at Edinburgh University in 2008, MacCormick was diagnosed with inoperable cancer.

Professor MacCormick was a member of the Convention on the Future of Europe from 2002 – 3, drafting the proposed Constitutional Treaty for the European Union.