The principles of the Chaordic Commons are guidelines against which all decisions and acts of the organization and its participants will be evaluated. They illuminate one another and must always be taken as a set.

Owning Members of the Chaordic Commons of Terra Civitas agree to five basic principles of practice and five fundamental principles of organization.

Principles of Practice

They will:

1. Work to ensure that all people, by right of birth, have adequate necessities of life, including clean air, water, food and shelter; an equitable share of wealth and resources; and opportunity to develop their full physical, mental and spiritual potential.
   
2. Work to ensure that human capacities, technologies and organizations sustain and support, not systemically alter, degrade or destroy, the Earth, its diversity of life or life support systems.
   
3. Work to ensure interdependent health and diversity of individuals, communities, institutions, cultures and other life forms.
   
4. Resolve conflict creatively and cooperatively without physical, economic, psychological, social, or ecological violence.
   
5. Freely and fully exchange information relevant to the purpose and principles unless doing so violates confidentiality or materially diminishes competitive position.

Principles of Organization

They will:

1. Be open to membership by any Individual or Institution subscribing to the purpose and principles in conducting activities of Terra Civitas and the Chaordic Commons.
   
2. Have the right to self-organize at any time, on any scale, in any form, for any activity consistent with the purpose and principles.
   
3. Conduct deliberations and make decisions by bodies and methods that reasonably represent all relevant and affected parties and are dominated by none.
   
4. Vest authority, perform functions, and use resources in the smallest or most local part that includes all relevant and affected parties.
   
5. Educe not compel behavior, to the maximum degree possible.