Commissioner (Scottish Parliament)

A commissioner was a legislator appointed or elected to represent a royal burgh or shire in the Parliament of Scotland and the associated Convention of the Estates.

Member of Parliament (MP) and Deputy are equivalent terms in other countries.

[1] However, each shire had only one vote, meaning that the two commissioners had to cooperate and compromise with each other.

They appear to have possessed plena potestas, and were not necessarily required to consult their electorates.

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