Edinburgh emerged as Scotland's main political center and was declared by James III (1460 1488) to be  the principal burgh of our kingdom. 
Edinburgh never emerged as a political center and instead remained an anarcho-sydicalist commune. 
mnli hypothesis: Edinburgh never emerged as a political center and instead remained an anarcho-sydicalist commune.  premise: Edinburgh emerged as Scotland's main political center and was declared by James III (1460 1488) to be  the principal burgh of our kingdom. 