How many of the signatories of the declaration of independence were of scots descent?
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The Kingdom of Scotland's 1320 Declaration of Arbroath was undoubtedly also an influence as the first known formal declaration of independence.\n\nIt would be hard to know the background of each of the 56 signatories without looking each one of them up and doing a complete historical biography.  Some have estimated about half had at least 1/2 Scottish blood.
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D. Thaddeus Stevens\n\n"Thaddeus Stevens (April 4, 1792 - August 11, 1868), also known as "The Great Commoner," was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He was a Radical Republican, and one of the dominant figures in Congress, 1861-1868."
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First people will want to know if you are Welsh or Irish and whether you are a prophet or sorcerer.  Oh... and is it Britain or do you have a lot Gaul?\n\nAnswers to these particulars will be helpful before giving further consent to a Constitutional Republic.
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Kind of assumes that every Scot wants independence which is not the case.  Wales is similar and Ireland is waaaaay more complicated due to its history.\n\nIndependence isn't simply signing a letter or changing politics there is a massive social and economic shift that needs to take place which may prove impractical (if not impossible) to ever put in place.  \n\nThis is not an occupation other than in the minds of a very very few people who harp back to before the Union of the Crowns.  I can only talk for what I know of the Scottish people, we are generally secure in our identity and the way we live our lives.  There is as much bitching about the Scottish Parliament as there is about the one in Westminster :-)
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This should help you!\n\nhttp://www.bookrags.com/biography-christa-laird-aya/index.html
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Sure, there are converts. The most famous is Madalyn Murray O'Hair's son William.
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The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence,[1] was a conflict that erupted between Great Britain and revolutionaries within thirteen British colonies, who declared their independence as the United States of America in 1776. The war was the culmination of the American Revolution, a colonial struggle against political and economic policies of the British Empire. The war eventually widened far beyond British North America; many Native Americans also fought on both sides of the conflict.\n\nThroughout the war, the British were able to use their naval superiority to capture and occupy coastal cities, but control of the countryside (where most of the population lived) largely eluded them. After an American victory at Saratoga in 1777, France, Spain, and the Netherlands entered the war against Great Britain. French involvement proved decisive, with a naval victory in the Chesapeake leading to the surrender of a British army at Yorktown in 1781. The Treaty of Paris in 1783 recognized the independence of the United States.\n\nNote that this article covers military actions only; for political and social developments, including the origins and aftermath of the war, see the article on the American Revolution.
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This website provides a thorough explanation of the Declaration of Independence by sections.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence
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1. a. Declaration of Independance\n    b. Articles of the confederation\n    c. Bill of Rights\n    d. Constitution\n  (these are a few of them)\n\n2. a. Alexander Hamilton \n    b. Ben Franklin\n    c. George Washington\n    d.James McHenry\n    e. David Brearley
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Yes I do consider myself British, when filing out official documents I always write Brit Scot. I am very proud to be Scottish but just as proud to say I am British.
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If you mean the founders in relation to the history of the country, I suggest you look @ \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States
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Six people with the surname of RANEW served in the Civil War on the Confederate side.  I belong to Ancestry.com,  but I would have to update to find anymore information than that.  If you are interested go to Ancestry.com.
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glad the forefathers didnt see it that way...so you could be a citizen subject to taxes but no voteing rights? think thats why we had a revolution with england. taxation without representation.
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The Constitution was “penned” by Jacob Shallus, a Pennsylvania General Assembly clerk, for a fee of $30 \n\nJames Madison, “the father of the Constitution,” was the first to arrive in Philadelphia for the Constitutional Convention. He arrived in February, three months before the convention began, bearing the blueprint for the new Constitution.\n\nGouverneur Morris was largely responsible for the “wording” of the Constitution, although there was a Committee of Style formed in September 1787.\n\nBenjamin Franklin needed help to sign the Constitution. As he did so, tears streamed down his face.\n\nJohn Adams was serving as the U.S. minister to Great Britain during the Constitutional Convention and did not attend. \n\nFrom 1785–1789, Jefferson served as minister to France. He did not attend the Constitutional Convention.
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hey, i'm a stevenson! i don't have a clue about what you are talking about with royalty..however, i would like my stipend too...and i suppose a title so i can prove it's owed to me, also...i'm into genealogy and i did some famdamily history on stevenson..and i actually found living relatives who also do tree limb leaves...who are realted to me by stevenson..if you'd like i can get you his name and you can see if you are realted to him, me and robert louis stevenson...i also found 5000 plus other names that were related!
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it is actually a wrong date.....\nthe Continental Congress voted for the Declaration of Independence on the second of July in 1776. No one signed it until August 2, and the last signatures didn't come until the end of November. \nJohn Adams even has a famous quote saying:\nHe wrote in a letter to his wife, Abigail, on July 3, 1776, that "the second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America."
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united kingdom consisting of great britain(england,wales and scotland) and northern ireland.