The Declaration of Communal Rights
Ratified at Port Jubilee, Year 28 After the Fracture (A.F.)
Authored by Niema True, Mei Li Huang, and Logan Sinclair
We hold that sovereignty is inherent, not conferred; that every person is born with certain inalienable rights — life, voice, safety, and belonging — and that these are not gifts from state or law, but conditions of existence which the living community is bound to maintain.
Rights are not bestowed but tended; not decreed but defended, in each generation anew. For freedom is not the act of being left alone, but the work of keeping one another whole.
Therefore we, citizens of the Republic of New Alaska, establish this Declaration of Communal Rights, so that our liberty may be rooted in care, our laws in equity, and our strength in the well-being of all.
Article I — Of Sovereign Existence
Every person is recognized as a sovereign being. Sovereignty is the natural condition of humanity, not a license conferred by birth, nation, or law.
While other lands may deny this truth, within the borders of New Alaska all human beings shall have their sovereignty fully recognized and actively defended. No distinction of origin, station, or circumstance shall abridge that protection.
The Republic’s first duty is not to create sovereignty, but to maintain it — through justice, safety, and the mutual recognition that binds one life to another.
Article II — Of Shelter and Sustenance
Each person shall have access to clean water, food, and shelter sufficient for life with dignity. No one shall profit from another’s hunger or deprivation. The Republic shall maintain, through cooperative labor, the means of common survival before the luxury of private gain.
Article III — Of Labor and Worth
Work freely chosen is a right; exploitation is not. The fruits of labor belong first to the laborer and second to the community that sustains the field. Wages and exchange shall be governed by equity, not extraction, and every trade shall honor both worker and land.
Article IV — Of Education and Expression
Learning is the breath of sovereignty. Each child shall be educated not merely for skill, but for discernment, so that knowledge serves both self and collective good.
The Republic shall safeguard free inquiry, art, and speech; yet shall also teach that voice carries responsibility, for words can wound or mend the fabric that holds us all.
Article V — Of Truth and Repair
Justice shall not seek vengeance but restoration. All harms shall be met first with truth, then with repair, and only thereafter with restraint or removal as necessity demands.
No person shall be silenced by fear, nor accused without being heard. The measure of guilt shall be the measure of harm undone.
Article VI — Of Civic Stewardship
Every citizen, from majority onward, shall renew the Charter through civic contribution — service, mentorship, or craft. To live within the Republic is to labor for its maintenance; to claim its protection is to share in its repair. Neglect of stewardship is neglect of sovereignty itself.
Article VII — Of Continuance
No law, court, or Council shall abridge the communal rights herein declared. They are perpetual obligations, held in trust by every generation.
When doubt arises, let care decide.
When conflict divides, let truth restore.
When the strong forget the weak, let this Declaration remind them:
We are each other’s Republic.
A History of the Fracture 