Commons rights differ from human rights and civil rights because they arise, not through the legislation of a nation-state, but through a customary or emerging identification with an ecology, a cultural resource area, a social need, or a form of collective labor.
Commons rights affirm the sovereignty of human beings over their means of sustenance and well-being. Social charter are based on common rights.
# Features
- vest us with a moral authority and social legitimacy to make decisions and create agreements on the sharing of resources that ensure our rights to survival and security. - provides a framework for long-term claims of authority over resources (cf: planetary birthrights) - provides a basis for creating covenants and institutions that are not state-managed while ensuring that the mutual interests of all stakeholders are directly represented -> the role of the state would become much more balanced between enabling the corporate sector and enabling citizens.
# Role of the Nation State
Instead of regulating commerce and finance in the public interest (while also regulating the commons for the benefit of commerce and finance), the new duty of the state would be to confirm the declarations of the rights of people to their commons, allowing them to manage their own resources by recognizing and upholding their social charters and commons trusts.
# See also
Costum, Vernacular Law, State Functions for Commoning, Strengthen Commons Public Circuits, Commons Public Partnership
# Sources
Global Common Trust, html 