
Declare Yourself, the non-profit youth voter registration organization, along with the Pearson Foundation and the National Student/Parent Mock Election, honored New Jersey schools as national winners for their voter education and mock election campaigns last fall with a special exhibition of an original copy of the Declaration of Independence. This rare document, one of 25 remaining copies printed by John Dunlap when Thomas Jefferson finished his final draft on July 4, 1776, is owned by Norman and Lyn Lear and remains the only touring copy of the Declaration of Independence. It will also visit six other winning schools across the country.


