CREATING YOUR

OWN DECLARATION
CREATING YOUR OWN DECLARATION

• Goal: Declare your independence

• Declare independence from what?
• What you are involved in or apart of:
• School
• Home
• Class
• Extracurricular Activities
• United States
• Tennessee
• Create your own country, state, city, etc…
CREATING YOUR OWN DECLARATION
• What you will need
• Preamble: Introductory statement that gives reason and intent of your Declaration
• Declaration of Natural Rights: Statement of what rights we have through (by) nature
(think Locke and Hobbes).
• Grievances: List your complaints against them (how your natural rights are infringed
upon).
• Resolution: What has come about (a direct result) due to your declaration of
independence.
• Signatures