With Tartan Day, which I assume is pretty much the American name for the day, approaching, I was wondering what importance the Declaration of Arbroath is held by Scots. We here have our Declaration of Independence which is very much a list of grievances followed by the announcement that we considered our allegiance to the British Crown to be over as a result of those grievances. In the educational system that I was in, they drew a more direct line from Magna Carta to the Declaration of Independence but Arbraoth is actually more of a model for the DoI than Magna Carta....I can only assume that it didn't get its due because the classes were pretty much the "highlights" as determined by the textbook company.

So we sort of look upon the DoI as a sacred document that set the whole thing on its course...is the DoA held in the same regard in Scotland? Does a reading of it give the average Scot goosebumps and make him stand a bit taller?

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AA