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The Scottish Invention of America, Democracy and Human Rights is a
history of liberty from 1300 BC to 2004 AD. The book traces the
history of the philosophy and fight for freedom from the ancient
Celts to the creation of America, asserting the roots of liberty
originated in the radical political thought of the ancient Celts,
the Scots' struggle for freedom, John Duns Scotus and the Arbroath
Declaration (1320), a tradition that influenced Locke and the
English Whig theorists as well as our Founding Fathers,
particularly Jefferson, Madison, Wilson and Witherspoon. Author
Alexander Klieforth argues the Arbroath Declaration (1320) and its
philosophy was the intellectual foundation of the American
Revolution and Declaration of Independence (1776). 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 work contends that the
Arbroath Declaration (1320) and its philosophy was the intellectual
foundation of the American Revolution and 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 influenced by Jefferson, Lincoln's
Gettysburg Address that 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. More information about this book is available at the
authors website www.braveheartsoul.com.
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