Article 21


Universal Declaration of the Rights of Human Organization (Part #29)

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Individual:

  1. Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives;
  2. Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country;
  3. The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures;

Collective:

  1. Every group has the right to take part in the government of its country, directly or through freely chosen representatives;
  2. Every group has the right of equal consideration in the public selection of appropriate social organs through which new programmes should be implemented;
  3. The will of the members shall be the basis of the authority of government of a group; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures;

Discipline:

  1. Every mode of thought and activity has the right to be taken into account in the government of the country, directly or through freely chosen representatives;
  2. Every mode of thought and activity has the right of equal consideration in the public selection of the most relevant patterns of operation upon which new programmes should be based;
  3. The will of the members shall be the basis of the authority of organization of a discipline; this will shall be expressed in genuine and continuous debate which shall be based upon universal and equal ability to submit alternative views;

Role:

  1. Each of one's roles should have the right to be taken into account in the government of one's conduct, directly or via the views expressed through a natural hierarchy of roles;
  2. Each of one's roles should have the right of equal consideration in the conscious selection of the most relevant modes of thought or activity upon which new action should be based;
  3. The consensus expressed by all one's roles should be the basis of the government and organization of one's conduct; this consensus should be expressed via genuine and continuous debate which should be based upon the equal ability of all one's roles to provide alternative perspectives.