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The Scottish Invention of America, Democracy and Human Rights

The Scottish Invention of America, Democracy and Human Rights is a history of liberty from 1300 BC to 2004 AD that traces the philosophy and fight for freedom from the ancient Celts to the medieval Scots to the Scottish Enlightenment to the creation of America. The authors contend that the roots of liberty originated in the radical political thought of the ancient Celts, the Scots’ struggles for freedom, John Duns Scotus and the Arbroath Declaration (1320), a tradition traceable through the writings of Scots Mair, Buchanan, Knox and Hutcheson and a tradition that influenced Locke and the English Whigs theorists and our Founding Fathers, particularly Jefferson, Madison, Wilson and Witherspoon. Thus, the work is a revolutionary alternative to the traditional Anglocentric view that freedom, democracy and human rights descended only from John Locke and England of the 1600s.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Foreword

Part One: Scotland the Brave

Chapter 1 CEUD MILLE FAILTE!
Chapter 2 Genesis
Chapter 3 The Celts--The People Who Disappeared Into the Shadows
Chapter 4 The Blossoming of Celtic Culture
Chapter 5 The Thistle Takes Root: Celtic Scotland
Chapter 6 Veni, Vidi Sed Non Vici
Chapter 7 The Four Founding Peoples and Their Kingdom
Chapter 8 The Celts and Supernatural Life
Chapter 9 The Scandinavians
Chapter 10 The Forging of a Nation
Chapter 11 The Normans
Chapter 12 The House of Canmore
Chapter 13 The Fall of the House of Canmore
Chapter 14 He Who Sows the Wind...
Chapter 15 ...Shall Reap the Worldwind
Chapter 16 Robert the Bruce
Chapter 17 Medieval Scotland and John Duns Scotus
Chapter 18 The Declaration of Arbroath; Text of the Declaration of Arbroath in English; Text of the Declaration of Arbroath in Medieval Latin
Chapter 19 From the Arbroath Declaration to the Scottish Enlightenment
Chapter 20 The Scottish Enlightenment

Part Two: The Scottish Invention of America, Thomas Jefferson, The Arbroath Declaration and the Declaration of Independence

Chapter 21 The Scottish Enlightenment in the United States
Chapter 22 The Scottish Mind of Thomas Jefferson
Chapter 23 The Drafting of the Declaration of Independence; The Text of the First Printing of the Declaration of Independence as Inserted in the Rough Journal of Congress
Chapter 24 An Analysis of the Style and Logic of the American Declaration
Chapter 25 A Comparison of the Arbroath Declaration and the Declaration of Independence
Chapter 26 The Scottish Influence on the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the New Federal Government; The Text of the American Bill of Rights
Chapter 27 The Controversy: The Comparative Influences of the Celtic-Arbroath Philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment versus English Philosophy and Law on the Creation of the Declaration of Independence and the American Republic

Part Three: The Age of the Rights of Mankind: How the Declaration of 1776 Carried World-Wide the Ideology of 1320 to the New Millennium

Chapter 28 The Effect of the Declaration of Independence on Scottish and British Political Reform
Chapter 29 The Declaration of Independence, the French Revolution and the Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Chapter 30 Abraham Lincoln’s Transformation of the Declaration of Independence from Freedom and Liberty to Equality; The Text of the Gettysburg Address
Chapter 31 The Ideology of 1320 and 1776 and the Global Independence and Human Rights Movements
Chapter 32 The Scots, American and French Declarations and the Third World
Chapter 33 And We Return to Scotland and England: The Scottish Parliament
Chapter 34 209 Years Later, the English, Scots and Welsh Get an American-Styled Bill of Rights
Chapter 35 Conclusions and the Future

Chronology of Celtic, Scottish, English and American Events

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