Calling all those who are good at Higher History!

In case anyone didn't realize, this is SCOTTISH QUALIFICATIONS...

OP: my essay plan for this last year was as follows:

-intro
-philosophical roots - quotes from Rousseau (man is born free but is everywhere in chains), American Declaration of Independence (inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness), French revolutionaries (liberté, égalité, fraternité), Burns (the rank is but the guinea stamp,/the man's the goud for a' that).
-"a moral right" - talking about Palmerston's death, Gladstone (every man is entitled to come within the pale of the constitution), Disraeli stealing the Liberals' clothes in 1867, etc
-new liberalism - th green arguing against smiles' self-help, arguing for a collectivist role to be played by the state, etc (I talked about Paisley cotton workers' principled stand against the American Confederacy's slavery in 1854 when they agreed to take lower wages so as not to use slaves' cotton, or something like that - not sure if it fits here.)
-prosperity encouraging reform - industrial revolution had created a class of entrepreneurs who wanted the vote to go along with their new riches. railways - once people could travel and saw themselves as men of the world, they wanted more political power.
-suffrage movements - reform union, reform league, nuwss, wspu
-widening role of govt - traditionally the govt had confined itself to war+peace, foreign affairs and royal business, but now it was dealing with issues like working conditions and safety in mines, and minimum standards of safety, signalling and braking in trains. Since the business of the govt increasingly targeted the common man, he should have a say in choosing the govt.
-education - education acts of 1870 and 1872 ensured that the working class became more literate and well-informed on current affairs, and so deserved the vote. eg - the Daily Mail (Faily Mail, Daily Fail, etc :P) became the first "newspaper" (I wouldn't use the inverted commas here in an exam :L) to reach daily circulation of 1 million copies in 1897.
-effect of WW1 - demands of total war (conscription, rationing, loss of family/friends) affected rich + poor equally, encouraging the feeling that everyone should be included in the franchise.
-conclusion

I should note that: 1) I never actually did this essay in any sort of exam, I didn't like it; and 2) the essay plan which I was given by my teacher was written by a rather... eccentric previous head of history who retired a few years ago - it is not necessarily the official version :P. But feel free to look over this and see if it's useful.

I don't like the democracy section that much either. Some of that was useful yes I am so used to the for & against system,but I find it hard to apply to this essay

The "to what extent" democracy question is easier. And the women essay is by far the best

Woman essay is the easiest because it builds on from what was learned in SG basically. Most of our class passed the NAB with that essay