The Scottish Constitution makes direct reference to the Scots’ Israelite origins. The medieval Scots were the first nation to adopt a written Constitution in 1320. It was called the ‘Declaration of Arbroath’, after the town where it was signed. It was by this same charter that the enlightened Scots adopted the format of a Constitutional Monarchy, which was not only the first in Europe, but possibly also the first in the world. The Scottish Declaration of Independence drawn up in 1320 by Bernard de Linton, and attested by all the Scottish nobles including King Robert de Bruce, made direct reference to the Scots’ Israelite origins. In a political climate where England was constantly trying to subjugate the Scots, the Scottish king sent a written appeal to Pope John XXII in Rome. The letter read as follows: Most Holy Father and Lord, we know and from the chronicles and books of the ancients we find that among other famous nations our own, the Scots, has been graced with widespread renown. They journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage tribes, but nowhere could they be subdued by any race, however barbarous. Thence they came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to their home in the west where they still live today. The Britons they first drove out, the Picts they utterly destroyed, and, even though very often assailed by the Norwegians, the Danes and the English, they took possession of that home with many victories and untold efforts; and, as the historians of old time bear witness, they have held it free of all bondage ever since. In their kingdom there have reigned one hundred and thirteen kings of their own royal stock, the line unbroken a single foreigner. https://youtube/watch?v=vBKBI7DOLHA
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