World Parliament

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Working under the Constitution for the Federation of Earth


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HOW WORLD GOVERNMENT WORKS



MAIN PROVISIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION FOR THE FEDERATION OF EARTH
adopted at the 1977 session of the World Constituent Assembly,
and revised at the 1991 session.


WORLD PARLIAMENT, composed of three houses:

House of Peoples, elected directly by the people equally
from 1000 World Electoral and Administrative Districts.
House of Nations, appointed or elected by national governments.
House of Counsellors of 200 elected by the other two houses, chosen for
global perspective; has nominative, consultative, initiative and referral functions.
WORLD EXECUTIVE, elected by and responsible to the Parliament. Presidium of a rotating president and 4 vice-presidents, all M.P.s, nominated by House of Counsellors. Executive Cabinet of 30 ministers, all M.P.s. The World Executive may not veto or suspend the Parliament or the Constitution.

WORLD ADMINISTRATION, of about 30 departments, each headed by a Cabinet Minister or Vice President; coordinated by a Secretary General chosen by the Presidium and confirmed by the Cabinet.

INTEGRATIVE COMPLEX, includes agencies for World Civil Service, Boundaries and Elections, Institute on Governmental Procedures and World Problems, Research and Planning, Technological and Environmental Assessment, World Financial Administration, and Legislative Review.

WORLD JUDICIARY, composed of 8 Benches having mandatory jurisdiction over different kinds of issues, with 5 continental seats. Collegium of World Judges is nominated by House of Counsellors and elected by Parliament, headed by a Presiding Council of 5 members which assigns judges to the several Benches.

THE ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM, non-military, is headed by an Office of World Attorneys General and commission of 20 Regional World Attorneys, elected by and removable by Parliament. The World Attorneys appoint the World Police (removable by the Parliament) to apprehend individual lawbreakers.

WORLD OMBUDSMUS, to protect human rights and ensure proper government functioning, is headed by a Council of 5 World Ombudsen nominated by House of Counsellors, and commission of 20 Regional World Advocates, all elected by the Parliament.

BILL OF RIGHTS, of 18 sections, effective when Constitution is ratified.

DIRECTIONAL PRINCIPLES, of 19 sections, additional rights and benefits to be implemented over a period of time for all world citizens.

JURISDICTION OF WORLD GOVERNMENT, defined in Grant of Powers of 40 sections. Nations retain jurisdiction over internal affairs.

FOR ELECTIONS AND ADMINISTRATION, Earth is divided into 1000 Districts, 20 Regions, 10 Magna-Regions, at least 5 Continental Divisions.

FIVE WORLD CAPITALS, to be established in 5 continental divisions, one is the Primary Capital, the others are Secondary Capitals.

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EARTH CONSTITUTION BY STAGES:


Provisional World Government, before 25 countries have ratified.
First Operative Stage, when 25 countries have ratified.
Second Operative Stage, when 50% of countries have ratified.
Full Operative Stage, when 80% of countries, comprising 90% of Earth's population, have ratified.
DISARMAMENT, of nations accomplished when constitution is ratified. The World Government does not retain nor use weapons of mass destruction.

VIABLE AGENCIES OF THE U.N., are transferred to the World Government.

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WORLD CONSTITUTION AND PARLIAMENT ASSOCIATION



General Perspective


The World Constitution and Parliament Association offers an organization and a course of action by which people and government leaders who want peace and human welfare can gain control over world affairs for the good of all people on Earth.



Objectives and Actions


World Government

The comprehensive objective, to be achieved in progressive stages, is a democratic, non-military, federal world government, which can solve world problems peacefully and administer those affairs which transcend national boundaries for the benefit of humanity everywhere.

The World Government will have a representative World Parliament to enact world legislation, with one chamber elected by the people; A World Executive responsible to the Parliament, with authority to implement world legislation directly; a World Judiciary with mandatory enforcement of decisions; and such other organs as are desirable and necessary for the adequate and effective solution of world problems and management of global affairs.



Earth Constitution

To achieve a democratic World Government, the WCPAGREN works for the ratification, or provisional ratification, of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth. Ratification is sought by national parliaments, national governments, local and state governments, universities and colleges, and by individuals and popular referendum.

The Earth Constitution was prepared at two drafting sessions of a World Constituent Assembly, held in 1968 at Interlaken, Switzerland, and Wolfach, W. Germany, and in 1977 at Innsbruck, Austria, with about 200 delegates from all continents, then reinforced at a third session at Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 1979.



Provisional World Parliament

Until the Earth Constitution is ratified by at least 25 countries, the W.C.P.A. helps to organize sessions of a Provisional World Parliament, which is organized under the terms of Article 19 of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.

The Provisional World Parliament has adopted eleven world legislative measures to deal with major world problems. Eight at its first two sessions which were held at Brighten, England, September, 1982, and at New Delhi, India, March, 1985 and three at the third session at Miami Beach, Florida, June 1987. When the Earth Constitution is ratified by 25 countries, the Provisional Parliament will be supplanted by a fully functioning world Parliament elected and composed as specified in the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.



World Legislation

As part of the process of the emergence of World Government, the W.C.P.A. works for the ratification and step-by-step implementation of world legislation enacted by the Provisional World Parliament, including:


Bill #1: to outlaw nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction,
and to establish a World Disarmament Agency.


Bill #2: for a World Economic Development Organization, which will establish
a new global system of finance and credit, and help begin the "new
world economic order."


Bill #3: for ownership, administration and development of the oceans and
seabeds of Earth(from 20 km. offshore) as the common heritage
of the People of Earth.


Bill #4: for a Graduate School of World Problems, as part of a World
University System.


Bill #5: for Provisional District World Courts.


Bill #6: for an Emergency Earth Rescue Administration, to bring carbon
dioxide levels under control, save the environment, and prevent
universal starvation as a result of global climatic catastrophe.


Bill #7: for a World Government Funding Corporation,
to finance the entire program.


Bill #8: for a World Commission on Terrorism.


Bill #9: to protect life and nature on Planet Earth, and to create a global
Ministry of Environment.


Bill #10: for a World Hydrogen Energy System Authority.


Bill #11: for an Act for the Earth Financial Credit Corporation.

And all world Legislation to be enacted by the Provisional World Parliament at subsequent sessions.


Provisional World Cabinet

As a further step towards an operating World Government, the Provisional World Parliament will inaugurate a Provisional World Cabinet at next sessions of the Parliament. The Cabinet will be composed of continuing Cabinet Ministers and Commissions, and will be responsible for implementing, insofar as possible, the legislation of the Parliament.

The members of the Cabinet must be accredited delegates to the Parliament, and will in effect serve as a Provisional World Government, merging with the Cabinet of the eventual World Government under a ratified Constitution for the Federation of Earth.



World Constituent Assembly

Prior to the final campaign for ratification of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth, another session of the World Constituent Assembly will be held, to go over the Earth Constitution, and make any amendments found necessary. It is proposed to hold the next session of the World Constituent Assembly when five countries have given provisional ratification to the Earth Constitution.




Organizational Structure


The World Constitution and Parliament Association is a worldwide organization based on individual membership, national branches, local chapters, and a section for members of national Parliaments. Currently, the W.C.P.A. has individual members in 60 countries and national branches in 15 countries.



World Constitutional and Parliament Association
8800 West 14th Avenue
Lakewood, Colorado 80215
Telephone: 303 233-3548
wcparliament@qwest.net


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CALL TO THE FIFTH SESSION OF THE PROVISIONAL WORLD PARLIAMENT

On the Island of Malta - November 22nd to 27th, 2000

After nearly 11,000 years of slow and hazardous development of civilization, since the emergence of Homo Sapiens from the rigors of the last ice age, with a 500-year climax of amazing scientific and cultural accomplishments, mixed together with stupendous political, technological and environmental blunders, all is about to be lost either by wars or the poisons of war, or by making the environment hostile to life and the consequent starvation of most people during the climatic upsets of possible descent into a new ice age.

Wise philosophers have for several generations proposed the necessity for a global government for Planet Earth, in order to achieve peaceful solutions to problems of inter-dependence, beneficial to all who find themselves living and struggling on this planet of such wonderful potentials.

At the end of world War II, many thinking people knew that Federal World Government was required as the political framework within which global and supra-national problems could be solved peacefully for the benefit of everybody – including continuance of life-friendly conditions of the present inter-glacial period.

Instead, the tragic mistake was made of establishing a weak association of sovereign nations, repeating the mistakes of the League of Nations, with neither a fairly representative World parliament given authority to adopt world legislation to solve world problems, nor a world executive with authority to directly administer world legislation; and each nation retains the right to equip itself with military forces.

As a result, many extreme global problems have accumulated without solutions during the past 50 years, dominated by squandering many millions of dollars on nuclear and other arms races. To cope with these problems, the United Nations has been mostly helpless. Moreover, the United nations Charter is drawn in terms of obsolete precepts of national sovereignty in every article and paragraph, with control given to the five permanent members of the Security Council, so that the Charter cannot be amended nor strengthened to serve as the constitution for a proper global government. The only practical procedure is to completely replace the U.N. Charter with a new constitution for Federal World Government.

For replacement, some people coming together from all continents, apart from the United Nations, have gone ahead to design the specific details of the kind of world constitution which is needed to establish the political framework and procedures for a representative federal world government, under which the residents of Earth can manage their common affairs peacefully to serve the welfare of all.


The work of preparing this world constitution – the CONSTITUTION FOR THE FEDERATION OF EARTH – has gone forward in four sessions of a World Constituent Assembly in 1968, 1977, and 1980 and 1991. Also, work has proceeded in four sessions of a Provisional World Parliament in 1982, 1985, 1987, and 1996, under Article 19 of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth, to prepare world legislation to solve certain urgent problems.

The Constitution for the Federation of Earth is ready now for immediate ratification by the nations and people of Earth, and for immediate practical implementation. Recognizing that World Government is already many decades overdue, and that enormous problems have grown and festered and become more complex and difficult each year in the absence of any way to work out good solutions, every effort must be made to expedite ratification.

The world problems requiring solutions have been described so often that this Call will shift attention ahead to a few of the urgently needed solutions, which can be rapidly put into effect as soon as the Constitution for the Federation of Earth is ratified, and in some important respects even as soon as the first 25 countries have ratified. Early benefits under the Constitution for the Federation of Earth may include:


All nuclear weapons are immediately defused and then dismantled, under supervision of the World Disarmament Agency, and further testing and production prohibited.


All weapons of mass destruction, both large and small, are put under the control of the World Disarmament Agency, for rapid dismantling or conversion to peaceful uses, and further production and sale prohibited.


Most dangers of war and military dictatorship are thereby eliminated.


Priority is given to a globally coordinated program of several hundred billion dollars per year to deal with the climate crises.

Comprehensive remedial action is based on an understanding of the extremes of both heat and cold and other climatic turbulences resulting from the "differential greenhouse effect," which is triggered primarily by excess carbon dioxide accumulations in the air and loss of Earth’s fertility – thus threatening agriculture and world food supplies and civilization everywhere.


All former military personnel, and others, can be employed by a civilian Earth Rescue Corps to restore and conserve a life-sustaining environment on Earth; and to maintain the global commons of the oceans, atmosphere, rivers, forests, phytoplankton, fish, the ozone layer, biodiversity and other elements.

The new global financial system, using a global currency for accounting, will provide sufficient financial credit to employ everyone at peaceful work to supply human needs. Finances will be available for both public and private projects, simply on the basis of people available to work and viable plans for production, services, etc. -- no past savings are required.

Projects to supply the needs of people living in a country may receive priority over projects for international trade. The scramble for outside investors looking for quick profits or for loans tied to repayment from export earnings are both eliminated – since past savings become irrelevant. Also ended as conditions for obtaining finances are, forced privatization or forced communalization, austerity measures, high interest, and curtailment of social welfare. Instead, standards will be defined for serving human welfare, payment of living wages, and environmental protection.


Human rights are protected everywhere, according to the guarantees and directive principles in the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.

Very rapid worldwide elimination of fossil fuels and of nuclear power is expedited, both technologically and financially. Rapid transition is made to solar, hydrogen, magnetic and other safe energy sources and equipment. Millions of jobs are created for the work of conversion to the new safe and environmentally friendly energy technology.


The oceans of Earth are owned and managed truly as the common heritage of humanity, and likewise the air space above the Earth.


The safe disposal of nuclear poisons and wastes, as well as other globally threatening toxic wastes, is put under strict control by the world government.


Technology transfers are assisted and expedited wherever helpful to serve peaceful human needs.


Planning guidelines are developed for the best uses of all natural resources of Earth, together with technological innovations, to serve the maximum human welfare of all inhabitants of Earth.


These are a few of the benefits to be derived from early ratification and implementation of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.


All of the above is made possible by the careful design in the Constitution for the Federation of Earth for the World parliament composed of a House of Peoples, a House of Nations and a House of Counsellors, the World Executive with a five-member rotating Presidium responsible to the Parliament, the World Judiciary, the non-military enforcement system, the World Ombudsmus, the Integrative Complex, the agencies of the world Administration, and many other carefully designed provisions.

THEREFORE, THE FIFTH SESSION OF THE PROVISIONAL WORLD PARLIAMENT IS HEREBY CALLED, TO BE ORGANIZED UNDER ARTICLE 19 OF THE CONSTITUTION FOR THE FEDERATION OF EARTH, TO CONVENE FOR TWO WEEKS, OCTOBER 20 – NOVEMBER 4, 2000, AT THE NEW OUAGADOUGOU CONVENTION CENTER, SYRTE, LIBYA, A COUNTRY WHICH OFFICIALLY WELCOMES THE PARLIAMENT.


THE AGENDA FOR THE FIFTH SESSION OF THE PROVISIONAL

WORLD PARLIAMENT OCTOBER 20 – NOVEMBER 4, 2000, SHALL INCLUDE:

Complete the first stage of ratification of the constitution for the Federation of Earth.

Take drastic action to rapidly inaugurate Federal World Government under the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.


Begin implementation of World Legislative Act Number One (with amendments as needed) for the world disarmament Agency.


Begin implementation of World Legislative Act Number Three (with amendments as needed) for the ownership and management of the oceans and seabeds of Earth.

Begin or expand implementation of World Legislative Act Number Six, as amended in 1996, for the Emergency Earth Rescue Administration, to cope with the climate crisis and other related environmental problems.


Begin or expand implementation of World Legislative Act number eleven, as amended in 1996, for a new global finance system to serve both the public and the private sectors.


Begin or expand implementation of the MANIFESTO for beginning world Government with more than 70% of Earth included. As approved in 1996.


Design and begin implementation of world legislation for a comprehensive Global Energy Administration, to replace fossil fuels and nuclear power with energy technology which is environmentally safe and friendly to life.


Establish the World Ombudsmus to protect human rights, as well as establish other agencies of the Integrative Complex, as defined in the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.


Prepare for the next elections of delegates to the World Parliament, under a ratified Constitution for the Federation of Earth.


Take any other actions which may be needed and feasible in year 2000.


TO COMPOSE THE YEAR 2000 PROVISIONAL WORLD PARLIAMENT,
DELEGATES ARE INVITED AND REQUESTED FROM BOTH
NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS OR NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS
AND FROM THE PEOPLE OF ALL COUNTRIES, AS FOLLOWS:

DELEGATES FROM NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS OR NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS:

Delegates are invited from each national government or Parliament which recognizes the necessity for Federal World Government, and which is ready to ratify the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.

National governments, including national parliaments, may send from 1 to 10 delegates, on a voting basis of 1 vote for countries under 2,000,000 in population, 2 votes for countries from 2,000,000 to 10,000,000 population, 3 votes for countries from 10,000,000 to 50,000,000 population, 4 votes for countries from 50,000,000 to 100,000,000 population, and 5 votes for countries above 100,000,000 population.

Silent observers may be sent by national governments or parliaments not ready to ratify the Constitution for the Federation of Earth; but observers may become delegates upon decision to ratify made while at the Parliament.


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Broad Functions of the World Government

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Basic Structure of World Federation and World Government

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Article IV • Organs of the World Government

The organs of the World Government shall be:



The World Executive.


The World Administration.


The Integrative Complex.


The World Judiciary.


The Enforcement System.
The World Ombudsmus.

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Article VI • The World Executive

Sec. A. Functions and Powers of the World Executive


To implement the basic system of world law as defined in the World Constitution and in the codified system of world law after approval by the World Parliament.


To implement legislation enacted by the World Parliament.


To propose and recommend legislation for enactment by the World Parliament.


To convene the World Parliament in special sessions when necessary.


To supervise the World Administration and the Integrative Complex and all of the departments, bureaus, offices, institutes and agencies thereof.

To nominate, select and remove the heads of various organs, branches, departments, bureaus, offices, commissions, institutes, agencies and other parts of the World Government, in accordance with the provisions of this World Constitution and as specifi ed in measures enacted by the World Parliament.


To prepare and submit annually to the World Parliament a comprehensive budget for the operations of the World Government, and to prepare and submit periodically budget projections over periods of several years.


To define and propose priorities for world legislation and budgetary allocations.


To be held accountable to the World Parliament for the expenditures of appropriations made by the World Parliament in accordance with approved and longer term budgets, subject to revisions approved by the World Parliament.

Sec. B. Composition of the World Executive


The World Executive shall consist of a Presidium of five members, and of an Executive Cabinet of from twenty to thirty members, all of whom shall be members of the World Parliament.


Sec. C. The Presidium


The Presidium shall be composed of five members, one to be designated as President and the other four to be designated as Vice Presidents. Each member of the Presidium shall be from a different Continental Division.

The Presidency of the Presidium shall rotate each year, with each member in turn to serve as President, while the other four serve as Vice Presidents. The order of rotation shall be decided by the Presidium.


The decisions of the Presidium shall be taken collectively, on the basis of majority decisions.


Each member of the Presidium shall be a member of the World Parliament, either elected to the House of Peoples or to the House of Counsellors, or appointed or elected to the House of Nations.

Nominations for the Presidium shall be made by the House of Counsellors. The number of nominees shall be from two to three times the number to be elected. No more than one-third of the nominees shall be from the House of Counsellors or from the House of Nations, and nominees must be included from all Continental Divisions.


From among the nominees submitted by the House of Counsellors, the Presidium shall be elected by vote of the combined membership of all three houses of the World Parliament in joint session. A plurality vote equal to at least 40 percent of the total m embership of the World Parliament shall be required for the election of each member to the Presidium, with successive elimination votes taken as necessary until the required plurality is achieved.


Members of the Presidium may be removed for cause, either individually or collectively, by an absolute majority vote of the combined membership of the three houses of the World Parliament in joint session.


The term of office for the Presidium shall be five years and shall run concurrently with the terms of office for the members as Members of the World Parliament, except that at the end of each five year period, the Presidium members in office shall con tinue to serve until the new Presidium for the succeeding term is elected. Membership in the Presidium shall be limited to two consecutive terms.

Sec. D. The Executive Cabinet


The Executive Cabinet shall be composed of from twenty to thirty members, with at least one member from each of the ten World Electoral and Administrative Magna Regions of the world.

All members of the Executive Cabinet shall be Members of the World Parliament.


There shall be no more than two members of the Executive Cabinet from any single nation of the World Federation. There may be only one member of the Executive Cabinet from a nation from which a Member of the World Parliament is serving as a member of the Presidium.

Each member of the Executive Cabinet shall serve as the head of a department or agency of the World Administration or Integrative Complex, and in this capacity shall be designated as Minister of the particular department or agency.


Nominations for members of the Executive Cabinet shall be made by the Presidium, taking into consideration the various functions which Executive Cabinets members are to perform. The Presidium shall nominate no more than two times the number to be elected.


The Executive Cabinet shall be elected by simple majority vote of the combined membership of all three houses of the World Parliament in joint session.


Members of the Executive Cabinet either individually or collectively may be removed for cause by an absolute majority vote of the combined membership of all three houses of the World Parliament sitting in joint session.


The term of office in the Executive Cabinet shall be five years, and shall run concurrently with the terms of office for the members as Members of the World Parliament, except that at the end of each five year period, the Cabinet members in office s hall continue to serve until the new Executive Cabinet for the succeeding term is elected. Membership in the Executive Cabinet shall be limited to three consecutive terms, regardless of change in ministerial position.

Sec. E. Procedures of the World Executive

The Presidium shall assign the ministerial positions among the Cabinet members to head the several administrative departments and major agencies of the Administration and of the Integrative Complex. Each Vice President may also serve as a Minister to head an administrative department, but not the President
. Ministerial positions may be changed at the discretion of the Presidium. A Cabinet member or Vice President may hold more than one ministerial post, but no more than three, providing that no Cabinet member is without a Ministerial post.


The Presidium, in consultation with the Executive Cabinet, shall prepare and present to the World Parliament near the beginning of each year a proposed program of world legislation. The Presidium may propose other legislation during the year.


The Presidium, in consultation with the Executive Cabinet, and in consultation with the World Financial Administration, (see Article VIII, Sec. G-1-i) shall be responsible for preparing and submitting to the World Parliament the proposed annual budget , and budgetary projections over periods of years.


Each Cabinet Member and Vice President as Minister of a particular department or agency shall prepare an annual report for the particular department or agency, to be submitted both to the Presidium and to the World Parliament.


The members of the Presidium and of the Executive Cabinet at all times shall be responsible both individually and collectively to the World Parliament.

Vacancies occurring at any time in the World Executive shall be filled within sixty days by nomination and election in the same manner as specified for filling the offices originally.

Sec. F. Limitations on the World Executive

The World Executive shall not at any time alter, suspend, abridge, infringe or otherwise violate any provision of this World Constitution or any legislation or world law enacted or approved by the World Parliament in accordance with the provisions of this World Constitution.


The World Executive shall not have veto power over any legislation passed by the World Parliament.


The World Executive may not dissolve the World Parliament or any House of the World Parliament.


The World Executive may not act contrary to decisions of the World Courts.


The World Executive shall be bound to faithfully execute all legislation passed by the World Parliament in accordance with the provisions of this World Constitution, and may not impound or refuse to spend funds appropriated by the World Parliament, nor spend more funds than are appropriated bt the World Parliament.


The World Executive may not transcend or contradict the decisions or controls of the World Parliament, the World Judiciary or the Provisions of this World Constitution by any device of executive order or executive privelege or emergency declaration or decree.

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Sec. G. The World Financial Administration


The functions of the World Financial Administration shall include the following, but not limited thereto:


To establish and operate the procedures for the collection of revenues for the World Government, pursuant to legislation by the World Parliament, inclusive of taxes, globally accounted social and public costs, licenses, fees, revenue sharing arrangeme nts, income derived from supra-national public enterprises or projects or resource developments, and all other sources.


To operate a Planetary Accounting Office, and thereunder to make cost/benefit studies and reports of the functioning and activities of the World Government and of its several organs, departments, branches, bureaus, offices, commissions, institutes, ag encies and other parts or projects. In making such studies and reports, account shall be taken not only of direct financial costs and benefits, but also of human, social, environmental, indirect, long-term and other costs and benefits, and of actual or po ssible hazards and damages. Such studies and reports shall also be designed to uncover any wastes, inefficiencies, misapplications, corruptions, diversions, unnecessary costs, and other possible irregularities.


To make cost/benefit studies and reports at the request of any House or committee of the World Parliament, and of the Presidium, the Executive Cabinet, the World Ombudsmus, the Office of World Attorneys General, the World Supreme Court, or of any administrative department or any agency of the Integrative Complex, as well as upon its own initiative.


To operate a Planetary Comptrollers Office and thereunder to supervise the disbursement of the funds of the World Government for all purposes, projects and activities duly authorized by this World Constitution, the World Parliament, the World Executive, and other organs, departments and agencies of the World Government.


To establish and operate a Planetary Banking System, making the transition to a common global currency, under the terms of specific legislation passed by the World Parliament.


Pursuant to specific legislation enacted by the World Parliament, and in conjunction with the Planetary Banking System, to establish and implement the procedures of a Planetary Monetary and Credit System based upon useful productive capacity and performance, both in goods and services. Such a monetary and credit system shall be designed for use within the Planetary Banking System for the financing of the activities and projects of the World Government, and for all other financial purposes approved by the World Parliament, without requiring the payment of interest on bonds, investments or other claims of financial ownership or debt.

To establish criteria for the extension of financial credit based upon such considerations as people available to work, usefulness, cost/benefit accounting, human and social values, environmental health and esthetics, minimizing disparities, integrity, competent management, appropriate technology, potential production and performance.


To establish and operate a Planetary Insurance System in areas of world need which transcend national boundaries and in accordance with legislation passed by the World Parliament.


To assist the Presidium as may be requested in the technical preparation of budgets for the operation of the World Government.



The World Financial Administration shall be supervised by a commission of ten members, together with a Senior Administrator and a Cabinet Minister or Vice President. The commission shall be composed of one commissioner each to be named by the House of Peoples, the House of Nations, the House of Counsellors, the Presidium, the Collegium of World Judges, the Office of Attorneys General, the World Ombudsmus, the Agency for Research and Planning, the Agency for Technological and Environmental Assessment, and the Institute on Governmental Procedures and World Problems. Commissioners shall serve terms of five years, and may serve consecutive terms.


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Article X • The Enforcement System

Sec. A. Basic Principles


The enforcement of world law and world legislation shall apply directly to individual, and individuals shall be held responsible for compliance with world law and world legislation regardless of whether the individuals are acting in their own capacity or as agents or officials of governments at any level or of the institutions of governments, or as agents or officials of corporations, organizations, associations or groups of any kind.


When world law or world legislation or decisions of the world courts are violated, the Enforcement System shall operate to identify and apprehend the individuals responsible for violations.

Any enforcement action shall not violate the civil and human rights guaranteed under this World Constitution.


The enforcement of world law and world legislation shall be carried out in the context of a non-military world federation wherein all member nations shall disarm as a condition for joining and benefiting from the world federation, subject to Article X VII, Sec. C-8 and D-6. The Federation of Earth and World Government under this World Constitution shall neither keep nor use weapons of mass destruction.


Those agents of the enforcement system whose function shall be to apprehend and bring to court violators of world law and world legislation shall be equipped only with such weapons as are appropriate for the apprehension of the individuals responsible for violations.


The enforcement of world law and world legislation under this World Constitution shall be conceived and developed primarily as the processes of effective design and administration of world law and world legislation to serve the welfare of all people on Earth, with equity and justice for all, in which the resources of Earth and the funds and the credits of the World Government are used only to serve peaceful human needs, and none used for weapons of mass destruction or for war making capabilities.

Sec. B. The Structure for Enforcement: World Attorneys General


The Enforcement System shall be headed by an Office of World Attorneys General and a Commission of Regional World Attorneys.


The Office of World Attorneys General shall be comprised of five members, one of whom shall be designated as the World Attorney General and the other four shall each be designated an Associate World Attorney General.


The Commission of Regional World Attorneys shall consist of twenty Regional World Attorneys.

The members to compse the Office of World Attorneys General shall be nominated by the House of Counsellors, with three nominees from each Continental Division of Earth. One member of the Office shall be elected from each of five Continental Divisions by plurality vote of the three houses of the World Parliament in joint session.


The term of office for a member of the Office of World Attorneys General shall be ten years. A member may serve two consecutive terms. The position of World Attorney General shall rotate every two years among the five members of the Office. The order of rotation shall be decided among the five members of the Office.


The Office of World Attorneys General shall nominate members for the Commission of twenty Regional World Attorneys from the twenty World Electoral and Administrative Regions, with between two and three nominees submitted for each Region. From these nominations, the three Houses of the World Parliament in joint session shall elect one Regional World Attorney from each of the twenty Regions. Regional World Attorneys shall serve terms of five years, and may serve three consecutive terms.


Each Regional World Attorney shall organize and be in charge of an Office of Regional World Attorney. Each Associate World Attorney General shall supervise five Offices of Regional World Attorneys.


The staff to carry out the work of enforcement, in addition to the five members of the Office of World Attorneys General and the twenty Regional World Attorneys, shall be selected from civil service lists, and shall be organized for the following func tions: Investigation.


Apprehension and arrest.


Prosecution.


Remedies and correction.


Conflict resolution.


Qualifications for a member of the Office of World Attorneys General and for the Regional World Attorneys shall be at least thirty years of age, at least seven years legal experience, and education in law and the humanities.


The World Attorney General, the Associate World Attorneys General, and the Regional World Attorneys shall at all times be responsible to the World Parliament. Any member of the Office of World Attorneys General and any Regional World Attorney can be removed from office for cause by a simple majority vote of the three Houses of the World Parliament in joint session.

Sec. C. The World Police

That section of the staff of the Office of World Attorneys General and of the Offices of Regional World Attorneys responsible for the apprehension and arrest of violators of world law and world legislation, shall be designated as World Police.


Each regional staff of the World Police shall be headed by a Regional World Police Captain, who shall be appointed by the Regional World Attorney.


The Office of World Attorneys General shall appoint a World Police Supervisor, to be in charge of those activities which transcend regional boundaries. The World Police Supervisor shall direct the Regional World Police Captains in any actions which require coordinated or joint action transcending regional boundaries, and shall direct any action which requires initiation or direction from the Office of World Attorneys General.


Searches and arrests to be made by World Police shall be made only upon warrants issued by the Office of World Attorneys General or by a Regional World Attorney.


World Police shall be armed only with weapons appropriate for the apprehension of the individuals responsible for violation of world law.


Employment in the capacity of World Police Captain and World Police Supervisor shall be limited to ten years.


The World Police Supervisor and any Regional World Police Captain may be removed from office for cause by decision of the Office of World Attorneys General or by absolute majority vote of the three Houses of the World Parliament in joint session.

Sec. D. The Means of Enforcement


Non-military means of enforcement of world law and world legislation shall be developed by the World Parliament and by the Office of World Attorneys General in consultation with the Commission of Regional World Attorneys, the Collegium of World Judges, the World Presidium, and the World Ombudsmus. The actual means of enforcement shall require legislation by the World Parliament.


Non-military means of enforcement which can be developed may include: Denial of financial credit; denial of material resources and personnel; revocation of licenses, charters, or corporate rights; impounding of equipment; fines and damage payments; performance of work to rectify damages; imprisonment or isolation; and other means appropriate to the specific situations.

To cope with situations of potential or actual riots, insurrection and resort to armed violence, particular strategies and methods shall be developed by the World Parliament and by the Office of World Attorneys General in consultation with the Commission of Regional World Attorneys, the collegium of World Judges, the Presidium and the World Ombudsmus. Such strategies and methods shall require enabling legislation by the World Parliament where required in addition to the specific provisions of this World Constitution.


A basic condition for preventing outbreaks of violence which the Enforcement System shall facilitate in every way possible, shall be to assure a fair hearing under non-violent circumstances for any person or group having a grievance, and likewise to a ssure a fair opportunity for a just settlement of any grievance with due regard for the rights and welfare of all concerned.

http://www.worldparliamentgov.net/constitution_article10.html

[ChristineMarie]

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Mission

The mission of the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions is to cultivate harmony among the world's religious and spiritual communities and foster their engagement with the world and its other guiding institutions in order to achieve a peaceful, just, and sustainable world.

Vision

The vision of the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions is of a just, peaceful and sustainable world in which:

The Earth and all life are cherished, protected, healed and restored
Religious and cultural fears and hatreds are replaced with understanding and respect
People everywhere come to know and care for their neighbors
The richness of human and religious diversity is woven into the fabric of communal, civil, societal and global life
The world's most powerful and influential institutions move beyond narrow self-interest to realize the common good
Religious and spiritual communities live in harmony and contribute to a better world from their riches of wisdom and compassion
All people commit to living out their highest values and aspirations

[ChristineMarie]

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