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Scotland's Declaration of Independence
By A. A. M. Duncan
41 pages. Downloadable pdf.
In 1320, six years after Robert the Bruce\'s stunning victory over the English at Bannockburn, the relationship between Scotland and England still was tense. The Scots had invaded the north of England two years earlier and had captured Berwick. But Edward II of England -- and Pope John XXIV -- still refused to recognize Scotland as an independent nation. In fact, the Pope was threatening the entire Scottish nation with excommunication if it did not accept Edward II as its feudal overlord. In response, 38 of Scotland's great noblemen sent the Pope an entreaty which not only created the desired response in Rome but also went into history as one of the most stirring and compelling statements of the rights of man ever written. In fact, nearly five centuries later, a group of rebellious British colonists in Philadelphia -- many of them of Scottish origin -- would draw the core ideas for their own Declaration of Independence directly from the Declaration made by the Scottish nobles at Arbroath Abbey.
As the Scots famously argued, "For we fight not for glory, nor riches, nor honours, but for freedom alone, which no good man gives up except with his life."
Here is the stirring story of Scotland's great Declaration of Abroath and its place in history.
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