Please calm down master Calvinist.  Are you really so proud that the Bank of England's founder beared your surname? (William Paterson (banker)) You are anachronistically trying to project the Scottish Enlightenment of the Edinburgh Establishment onto this discussion, in an attempt to shut people up from a serious discussion/dissent.  The subnational civil services of England and Scotland remained separate until they saw that working together would depose the Stuarts, although it was the Stuart dynasty which brought them together in the first place.  Any dominance that England had in the Union was Parliamentary, whilst the Royal family was a Scottish dominance.  It was a good trade-off in principal, but failed to satisfy all partisans in practice.  You deny all charges of Calvinists that the Stuarts attempted to impose universal Anglican uniformity in the British Isles?  What a way to shoot yourself in the foot, while glazing over the Great Rebellion and Revolution.  How impressive!  Scottish backwardness has never and will never go away.  Oh well; I'm married to a Highlander and proud of it.