From the latest issue of Rachel's Democracy & Health News: What is government for? It is to protect the commons, all the things we own together and none of us owns individually, such as air, water, wildlife, the human gene pool, the accumulated human knowledge that we each inherit at birth, and more. Can protecting the commons be expressed in a simple set of guidelines? Here's a start... Read Carolyn Raffensperger, Ten Tenets: The Law of the Commons of the Natural World, Rachel's Democracy & Health News, No. 847, Mar. 23, 2006