ALEX Salmond yesterday invoked the words of Thomas Jefferson when he told a US audience that Scotland had the right to self-governance.
In a Scotland Week speech at the University of Virginia, the First Minister used the founding father's work to promote a referendum on independence for Scotland.
In his second keynote speech of the week he said: "Scotland, sooner rather than later, is entitled to have the right to choose our constitutional future.
"That is a guiding principle for the debate on Scotland's future – a national conversation involving all the people of Scotland.
"And it is the words of Thomas Jefferson that will inspire us: 'We are a people capable of self-government, and worthy of it'."
The Welsh people are capable of self-government too.