Jumbled up with those redistributions was a mélange of other plans, avowedly designed to transfer authority from the executive to Parliament, and from Parliament to ordinary people.
They should have focused more on increasing the accountability of the executive to parliament and how elected lords would strengthen parliament's position in a system where there are too few "checks and balances" over what governments can get away with.
Clerk and chief executive, Scottish parliament.
If Chilcot provides this, then real lessons might be learned: about leadership, cabinet government and accountability of the executive to parliament.
He would, for instance, buttress the commission, or executive, and Parliament by appointing a commission president from the winning bloc of parties in the European elections.
In Italy, on the same day, the centre-left government looks set to lose a referendum designed to strengthen the power of the executive over parliament.
It improves the confidence of workers, clearly improves their practice and says something about the way the Scottish executive and parliament value education and training in social work".
Recent examples had shown that "the judiciary, the executive and parliament can work well together while still respecting their functional boundaries".
Now, the executive and parliament are ranged against the judiciary and the country's un-elected institutions and Khomeini's successor, the conservative-leaning Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, seems unable to impose a consensus.
While he was strong and explicit when it came to shifting muscle from the executive to parliament, he was more vague, promising only consultations and proposals, on the shift from central to local and from state to individual.
