Earth Constitution: Only A Democratic World Federal Government Is Realistic
UNITED NATIONS, 6 Feb 2023
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service
2 Feb 2023 – The Constitution for the Federation of Earth (aka Earth Constitution) is a blueprint to build an emerging democratic world federal government — an Earth Federation movement led by the World Constitution & Parliament Association (WCPA) to replace the United Nations system stymied with its obsolete and fatally flawed Charter.
World federalists generally agree that world federal government is our only realistic hope to end wars between nations, or to eliminate weapons of mass destruction. Because the United Nations Charter is not a world federal government and is not constitution-based, it has repeatedly failed in its main purpose — to end war.
For the reasoning to explain that only world government can save our world I recommend “Einstein on Peace” and “The Psychology of Nuclear Disarmament: Only A Democratic World Federal Union is Realistic” (Academic Council on the UN System, Earth Federation NEWS 2/2/21).
If the UN is unable, or unwilling, to transform itself into a democratic world federation, then the WCPA’s Earth Federation/Earth Constitution movement must fill the void. Its strategic advantage is that it need not wait for approval from the nation-states, important as they ultimately will be, to build an alternative world organization parallel to, but independent of, the United Nations.
The Earth Federation strategy is far more than an attempt to build a viable democratic world federation. Its Earth Constitution is the heart and soul of a new vision for our world, where idealism is encouraged and supported while the path to good government is concrete and practical.
The Earth Federation’s Provisional World Parliament outlaws weapons of mass destruction and war itself. There is a brilliantly designed World Judiciary System with Enforcement powers so that Bully nations whose leaders are responsible for world crimes are no longer above the Law.
Professor Glen Martin, a WCPA leader, declares that the Earth Federation “invites in all and excludes no one.” “It recognizes every human being as a citizen, and invites every nation to be a member, with all the rights, privileges, and benefits that apply under the Constitution.”
Should social activists just keep doing what they’re doing — networking; reacting to this crisis, then that crisis; protesting this war, then that war; lamenting loudly over poverty and human rights abuses? Isn’t complaining loudly, but with no permanent solution, a “Sisyphean experience”?
The Earth Federation/Earth Constitution/World Parliament strategy could change all of that.
We’d all like UN reform to succeed. But if the UN remains with its present failed Charter, then it’s just common sense to have a replacement strategy waiting in the wings. Tell the UN General Assembly that the Earth Constitution is ready to go.
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Roger Kotila, Ph.D. is a peace activist and a psychologist (ret.) with many years of clinical experience with the California Dept. of Corrections doing psychiatric diagnosis and treatment with inmates. President of Democratic World Federalists he is co-editor of DWF NEWS, and editor of Earth Federation News & Views. He supports a “new UN” under the Earth Constitution. www.earthfederation.info Email: earthstarradio@aol.com
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“Only A Democratic World Federal Government Is Realistic”
Only someone deeply asleep and comatose about the world we live in and what humans are would state such irresponsible inhumane nonsense.
Any alleged expert, such as Roger Kotila, Ph.D., who talks about “democracies” AS IF a real democracy ACTUALLY EXISTS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD (or has existed at any time) is evidently living mindlessly and blindly in the propaganda world fed to them since a kid and/or is part of the (unconscious, ignorant, naive, willful) crowd who disseminates this total lie because any “democracy” has always been a covert structure of the rule of a few over the many operating behind the pretense name and facade of a “democracy” — see “The 2 Married Pink Elephants In The Historical Room” … https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html
“All experts serve the state and the media and only in that way do they achieve their status. Every expert follows his master, for all former possibilities for independence have been gradually reduced to nil by present society’s mode of organization. The most useful expert, of course, is the one who can lie. With their different motives, those who need experts are falsifiers and fools. Whenever individuals lose the capacity to see things for themselves, the expert is there to offer an absolute reassurance.” —Guy Debord
DWF NEWS is quite aware of the abuse of the concept of “democracy.” Very few nations are genuine democracies. The U.S. we have argued, is not really a democracy at the federal level, but an oligarchy (rule by the few, Big Money). There is some real democracy in America at the local level (city and county elections).
At the international level DWF NEWS points out time and time again that at the United Nations there are 188 nations denied voting rights. Some of these nations could be considered democratic more or less, while other nations are more authoritarian.
Yet we believe it is “more” democratic if all nations in the UN General Assembly get real voting rights rather than just the UN Security Council’s P-5 veto powers. The UN Security Council needs to be disbanded and replaced by the House of Nations (UN General Assembly) and the House of Peoples (Provisional World Parliament) to create a UN World Parliament or Earth Federation World Parliament.
World federation can only end war if all nations are involved and get voting rights. But the Earth Constitution goes further and says that the world community (“we, the people”) also should be part of decision-making powers. The House of Peoples called for by the Earth Constitution is 1000 electoral districts to represent the world’s 8 billion people.
There are three models for global governance, viz. Cross-national Organization, Supra-national Organization and Trans-national Organization.
Cross-national Organization:
In a model of global governance through cross-national organization, nation-states may take part in each other national assemblies for making the decisions without changing forms of governments.
But in practice, global governance through cross-national organization is not feasible and conducive to the progress, prosperity and peace for people of all nations of the world. However, Cross-national organization is the first step of supranational organization.
Supra-national Organization
Global governance through a supra-national organization is governance by forming world government giving full sovereignty to it to govern leaving national sovereignty, which will not be successful in providing security to all, or in helping to achieve peace in the present situation, as a great many people remain poor and ignorant under national regimes. People of the world are not in a position to have a world government till all people of the globe would be free from fear and want, to be perpetually enlightened and truly educated which are the basis of genuine democracy and perpetual peace.
Trans-national Organization:
Global governance by trans-national organization through the United Nations is the only best and suitable way for security and peace of peoples in the 21st Century. It is only the United Nations which can face the challenges of our diverse world, and solve the existing problems of peoples of different regions, races, languages, religions, ideologies, and nations. The United Nations through its programs and organs, specialized agencies and other autonomous organizations, other commissions and committees and ad hoc and related bodies, and peace-keeping operations peace-building functions, has already done a lot to serve the welfare and development of people of almost all the nations of the world.
For more details, one may refer to the article of the author of these lines cited below with its website link:
Grand Design for Universal Peace Education for Global Good Governance through the New UN
UNITED NATIONS, 9 Apr 2018
By Surya Nath Prasad, Ph.D. –TRANSCEND Media Service
https://www.transcend.org/tms/2018/04/grand-design-for-universal-peace-education-for-global-good-governance-through-the-new-un/
DWF NEWS is quite aware of the abuse of the concept of “democracy.” Very few nations are genuine democracies. The U.S. we have argued, is not really a democracy at the federal level, but an oligarchy (rule by the few, Big Money). There is some real democracy in America at the local level (city and county elections).
At the international level DWF NEWS points out time and time again that at the United Nations there are 188 nations denied voting rights. Some of these nations could be considered democratic more or less, while other nations are more authoritarian.
Yet we believe it is “more” democratic if all nations in the UN General Assembly get real voting rights rather than just the UN Security Council’s P-5 veto powers. The UN Security Council needs to be disbanded and replaced by the House of Nations (UN General Assembly) and the House of Peoples (Provisional World Parliament) to create a UN World Parliament or Earth Federation World Parliament.
World federation can only end war if all nations are involved and get voting rights. But the Earth Constitution goes further and says that the world community (“we, the people”) also should be part of decision-making powers. The House of Peoples called for by the Earth Constitution is 1000 electoral districts to represent the world’s 8 billion people.