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Article Five
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#### Article Five Adulthood ceases to be defined by an arbitrary and is instead claimed by intentional action of demonstrated competence in a field of study. Independence is the field describing the general skill-set to obtain relief from parental or guardian limitations. An independent adult owns their own actions, needs, resources and liability for harm caused by their actions. Interdependence is the field describing the general skill-set required for political adulthood. An interdependent adult is an independent adult who owns the consequences of their existence beyond being held accountable for deliberate or negligent harm. Every field of study possesses children, sophomores, and adults. Children can be taught. Sophomores know enough to be dangerous. Adults know enough to be dangerous without causing harm. Every individual within a field is dependent, independent, or interdependent. Dependents require intercession to survive the environment. Independents manage their own survival under the constraints of the environment. Interdependents manage their own survival and the survival of others. a dependent child becomes independent when they are capable of demonstrating firecraft, cooking, first aid, sanitation, communication and maintenance of the tools necessary for such. this results in an independent (can survive without constant supervision) sophomore (knows enough to be dangerous). An individual claims [1] adulthood [2] in a field by creating a proclamation of competency [3]. For participation in the body politic: handwritten [4] verbatim transcription of these Articles [5], portfolio of demonstrable skills, schedule of intended activities. [1] Who will not claim Adulthood remains a child; who renounces Adulthood becomes retired; who cannot attain or retain Adulthood are invalids. [2] all adults are the same legal age, alive now. [3] Each field outside the body politic will require their own set of demonstrable skills validation process delineated in a field specific interdependent way canon. [4] save for prohibitive neurodivergence [5] the Rights and Definitions of The Way ---