The phrase "draft a declaration" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to write a formal document or statement that publicly declares or proclaims a position or belief. Example: "In preparation for the upcoming negotiations, the team leader asked John to draft a declaration outlining the company's stance on outsourcing labor."
In 2010, Marino banded together with other scientists, activists, and philosophers to draft a "Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans" declaring that no whales and dolphins "should be held in captivity … or removed from their natural environment".
The Congress recommended that colonies form their own governments and assigned a committee to draft a declaration of independence.
The members of the CND were supposed to draft a declaration that would represent the interests and realities of all 193 member states.
They spent the morning sharing their designs with one another, and in the afternoon set out to draft a Declaration ("Capital D," Mr. Stratas said), which will lay out their displeasure with the competition's eight finalists and which could be released to the public as early as today.
Just a few years after he represented Howell in court, the Continental Congress asked Jefferson to draft a declaration of independence from the British Empire.
According to the indictment, the informant told Culpepper he was not present at the crime scene, but Culpepper agreed to draft a declaration for him to sign.
The European commission has drafted a declaration stating that European environmental and health standards will not be diluted.
At which point, unless George Steiner drafts a declaration of characters' rights, I will do with them what I must.
Beilin did not tell Shimon Peres, Rabin's foreign minister, of the back channel until the negotiators had drafted a declaration of principles for Palestinian self-government.
On March 1, the first day of the convention, a committee began drafting a declaration of independence; on March 2 the declaration was presented and adopted; and on March 3 the delegates began signing it.
An Israeli government spokesman, Avi Pazner, linked the bombing to the UN conference on racism in Durban, South Africa, which has drafted a declaration condemning Israel for its treatment of the Palestinians.
