The Scottish Invention of America, Democracy and Human RightsThe 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. The work is the first historical analysis to locate and document the origin of the doctrine of the “consent of the governed” in the medieval scholar, John Duns Scotus (c.1290s), four centuries before Locke and the English Whigs, and in the evolutionary progress of mankind. The authors contend that the Arbroath Declaration (1320) and its philosophy were the intellectual foundation of the American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence (1776). After showing the Scottish influence on the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights and the new Federal government, the Braudelian-style work traces the development of Scottish-style freedom and human rights through the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen which Jefferson influenced, Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address which transformed Jefferson’s Declaration and Eleanor Roosevelt’s role in creating the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the foundation of the modern human rights struggle. 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 Bibliography and Further Reading About the Authors Index |
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