My friend Wade in Texas wrote this beautiful song for his father-in-law, Sir Donald Neil MacCormick, who died on April 5, 2009.

Sir MacCormick’s incredibly illustrious career included drafting the constitution of the European Union and being a leading voice in the Scottish Nationalist Party that his father founded, but Wade’s song is about a different part of the man. Read Wade’s entire tribute to his father-in-law here.

But you would not know that he had met with princes and prime ministers or that conferences were organized in foreign countries to discuss his life’s work. You would not know that, up to his death, he played a crucial role in determining Scotland’s relationship to the other countries in the UK and that his ideas and the force of his own personality are likely to continue to influence the future of Scotland and the UK as that future evolves into the present. ~Wade Williams