http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20181005-163337-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/scotland-and-the-eu-comment-by-michael-keating-2/ Scotland and the EU: Comment by MICHAEL KEATING Keating, Michael eng 2014-09-09 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 To suggest that a nation that has followed the Scottish route should not be allowed into the European family while others with more dubious pedigrees are, would violate basic democratic principles. Effectively, Scotland would be expelled from the union for exercising a widely-recognized democratic right.