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Advocates of this movement believe that they are not a county of England, but a separate nation that has never been incorporated into the country of England.
These people believe that Cornwall is a separate nation from England and are pushing to be recognized as one of the home nations of the UK.
During the first English Civil War, Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet began a campaign for an independent Cornwall.
He tried using "Cornish particularist sentiment" in order to pull together support for the Royalist cause.
While the Cornish were fighting for their Royalist privileges, he approached the Prince with a plan that if implemented, would have the effect of creating a semi-independent Cornwall.
If Mebyon Krenow prevales, as he has sought for many years that Cornwall be bestowed the position of a first order, this would put Cornwall on the same level as Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Regions of England, which is one of 'home nation'.
In 2000, the Cornish Constitituional Convention started a campaign for a Cornish Assembly.
A cross-party movement that represented many political voices and positions within Cornwall.
The Cornish Constitutional Convention which is composed of a number of political groups within Cornwall, produced about fifty thousand signatures in the year 2000, on a petition to create a Cornish Assembly.
This assembly would closely rememble that of the National Assembly for Wales.
This petition was undertaken because of an ongoing debate as to the devolution of power to the English regions, Cornwall being part of the South West.
John Angarrack of Cornwall 2000, which is a Human Rights organization, has produced two books, one called 'Breaking the Chains and the other called Our Future is History.
These two books detail a large percentage of the core issued of the Cornish national movement, it also re-examines Cornish history.
In 2001, campaigners prevailed upon the United Kingdon census to count Cornish ethnicity as a 'write-in' option on the national census, as there was no separate Cornish check box.
In February of 2003, Cornwall's Council poll showed fifty-five percent in favour of an elected and fully devolved regional assembly for Cornwall.
Thirteen percent were against it.
The movement received welcome though unexpected publicity in 2004 when a Simpson's cartoon feature televised an alternative Christmas message, that message was in the form of daughter Lisa changing "Rydhsys rag Kernow lemmyn, which basically translates to freedom for Cornwall now, while holding a placard that read " UK OUT OF CORNWALL.
The Celtic League and Celtic Congress, which is a Political Pressure league group, campaigns for independence and for Celtic cooperation.
The website for The Cornish Stannary Parlament has a complete overview of their current campaigns.
Many of the Cornish nationalists, in addition to proposing legal or constitutional arguments, also promote that the Cornish are distinct in ethnicity as a group or nation.
Typically, residents of Cornwall believe that the country of England starts East of the Tamar.
They argue that they have their own heritage, traditions, history, and even their own language, they believe therefore, that they have a right to 'national self determination'.
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