Declaration of Independence

We the children, in order to form a nation of our vision, hereby establish our nation of Fidelitas, which means "Loyalty". We believe as our own independent nation that we can create a utopian society better than that of the United States of America. We believe that it is our duty to establish our utopian nation for our right of freedom and independence.

We have based our form of ruling government in Fidelitas on the philosophy of Locke and Hobbes. Hobbes believed in ruling through fear, and Locke believed that everyone should have equal rights. We will have our government set up as a direct democracy in the strong belief that this will be the best form of government.

Our freedoms will be based on that of the wolves, meaning that everyone has a part in the pack and in this utopia. We will include freedoms of property, speech, religion, assembly, petition, and voting. We believe that these freedoms will create a society ruled with peace, equality, and unity.

We believe that we can create a society that is better than the modern U.S.A. for several reasons. We believe that the current U.S.A. does not have a constitutional republic is not the best way of having a set up government. We believe that by giving the people of our nation the freedom and right to have their own laws voted on by them, the people will be more alert about and involved in the government and therefore making the government the best system for the people, by the people.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Letter To Friends Asking Them To Join Us

Dear Friends,

We have found fault with today’s society and therefore have decided to form our own greater society which is called Fidelitas and we would like you to join our society. In our society we have a lot weighing on trust, loyalty, teamwork, and honesty, qualities that we believe are some of the best and most important to exhibit. Loyalty, trust, teamwork, and honesty are important because if you don’t exhibit these qualities with your friends, family, society, community, and most importantly yourself than what are you living for and what are you living by. All of these qualities are morals and if you don’t have them, then you don’t have morals either, or at least not very high morals and what good is that. Not having these qualities means that you would lie to your parents, tell your friends you can come to their birthday party and then cancel when you think something better comes along, tell you team you’re going to do something and then not do it, and keep secrets from everyone that could help you with a problem. Doing any of these things is awful, and doing all of them or even anything remotely close is also a shame, and we believe that our society will help to bring out these traits in everyone or enhance them if they are already portrayed.
Our society is based on that of the wolves, wolves have many good qualities and therefore we knew that basing our society on theirs was the best choice. Wolves always work in teams to get things done, whether it is going in for the kill (just an example we aren’t doing that in our society) or through the way they communicate with each other and quickly spread messages they are always working together. We want this for our society as well, we want to do things together and not just have one person making decisions and then following through with them. We want everyone to make decisions together and then follow through, together, not alone, no one has to be alone in our society, no one has to be lonely. Wolves are also loyal to each other and make sure that no one is left behind and that they always have each other’s backs, trust comes into play here as well. The wolves trust each other and they know that they all have each other’s backs and will fight and defend each other till the end. This is definitely something that we want in our society because we know that often times in today’s society people are betrayed, either by the one’s they love and are close to or by total strangers and we are sick and tired of betrayal. We want everyone in our society to be able to trust each other, trust each other so much that they would put their lives in total stranger’s hands and know that they are safe; this will be accomplished by not having locks on people’s homes or having things such as safes where people lock up valuables. Another thing that will be done is to have weekly (at first and then monthly as things progress and the society develops), gatherings, like a block party where people gather and socialize with one another and talk about what is going on in their lives and tell people about them and how they are doing and generally just get to know one another. This will help with trusting because then people will know everyone and they will know everything about them so that there are no secrets being kept or lies being told, which brings us to honesty. People in the society are encouraged to always tell the truth and never lie to each other and that will be possible because of the gatherings, people will trust each other and really know each other so they won’t lie to each other as much as they do now hopefully. We think that all these things are critical in a society and that many societies do not contain these qualities and therefore cannot be satisfactory and serve their citizens in a necessary manner. We hope that you find our society to be better than today’s current society and that you will soon help us in making our society even better than it already is by joining us as a citizen of Fidelitas.

Sincerely,
The Founders of Fidelitas

3 comments:

Alex said...

Wow

Michael said...

Very nice letter.

Kate said...

that was a very detailed delaration. is there a military? what happens if people dont agree whne trying to make decisions? i liked how you talked about the societys morals. nice job