In the end, Scots must get comfortable with being a small piece of a medium-sized nation -- or else go it alone.I'm not certain I agree. Why couldn't the U.K. have the equivalents of our states, of which Scotland would be one, Wales another, Northern Ireland a third. The question would be, into how many subunits should what remains (England?) be divided? Cornwall? The Midlands?
The national parliament would legislate on defense, foreign affairs, fiscal and monetary matters. The "state" parliaments would decide state-level things like education, welfare, health care. I can imagine a design in which the same MPs serve at both levels, meeting locally to decide "state" matters and jointly to decide national matters.
