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Universal Accountability: Everyone would be accountable under world law, including all national and world government officials. No one would be above the law.
A World Constitution: Before law enforcement powers are given to any world organization, there must be safeguards against world tyranny. An essential safeguard is a world constitution with a global bill of human rights.
Global Structures: The world constitution (whether a modified UN Charter, or a document drafted independently of the UN) would provide for a democratic federal world government under world law.
The world government would include a democratically elected world legislature, world courts, and a world executive with a world peace force. These institutions would protect the rights and security of the people of the world, in all nations.
The Federal Principle--Unity with Diversity: The world constitution would grant certain powers to the world government and reserve other powers to national governments and to the people.
Stopping Aggression: If international military aggression occurs, the world government would act, in accordance with world law, to
- Protect innocent people on each side of the conflict,
- Stop the violence,
- Arrest and prosecute persons responsible for the aggression.
Essential, Not Merely Desirable
We think that a democratic federal world government is essential for the protection of the Earth's life support systems, because we believe:
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That national and international laws are inadequate to protect the global environment and halt the proliferation of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction;
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That there is an urgent need for enforceable world law to protect the world's people and the future of our children;
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That an adequate system of world law requires some form of world government;
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That the only type of world government that would have any chance of being acceptable to the world's people would be a constitutional democratic federal world government under world law.
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A democratic federal world government, founded on a world constitution with a global bill of human rights, will protect cultural diversity throughout the world and enable the human family to act as one to protect its common global home.
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