30. John Knox and a New Vision for Scotland (part 3)

When John Knox returned to Scotland in 1559, he was quickly challenged by Mary Queen of Scots, who returned soon thereafter from twelve years in France. Their relationship defined the entire controversy in Scotland, monarch against preacher, Catholic against Protestant, political against moral authority. In the end, Mary was her own undoing however, and by the time of his own death in 1572, the Scottish Reformation was well underway toward a reformulation of religious and political principles that would eventually become central to the American experiment of constitutional governance.