BooksThe Scottish Invention of America, Democracy and Human Rights
A History of Liberty and Freedom from the Ancient Celts to the New Millennium The authors contend that freedom originated in the political thought of the Celts, the Scots’ struggles for freedom, John Duns Scotus and the Arbroath Declaration (1320) which were the foundation for the Declaration of Independence. “Consent of the governed” originated in Scotus, four centuries before Locke and the Whigs. |
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