Alexander V of Scotland (10 January 1848 - 28 May 1921) was the first Spalding King of Scotland and one of the founders of the Scots Compact, a basic constitution seeking to alleviate the clan interfighting that had plagued Scotland during the Mackintosh era. Alexander V, while coming to power through violence, was known as a man of peace in his rule and gently and slowly devolved the power of the clans in the Scottish Parliament and extended suffrage to women in 1912. Alexander V diminished the role of the nobility while increasing the power of the Parliament and the king, creating a more centralized, modern government and moving the national capital back to Edinburgh. The Scottish population nearly doubled under his 32-year reign and he was praised as a great reformer and benign constitu
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