World Government

This text articulates, in English, a program to address current World problems as a series of transformations of the Constitution of the United States of America for the following purposes:

1. To allow the member states to globalize social and governmental functions, achieving economies of scale, freeing resources for local economic activity, and addressing concerns which cannot be adequately addressed in the nation-state framework.

2. To give a strong political voice to the international working class.

3. To reform it to reflect the changes in human society since it's writing nearly Two Hundred and Fifteen years ago and the experience obtained in the application of the original document.

4. To extend it's benefits and jurisdiction to as many of the states of the Earth as choose to freely ratify it.

The American consitution replaced the Articles of Confederation after it was found that a loose confederation of states was inadequate. The situation now existing is similar in many respects if we replace the American colonies with the current nation-states and the Articles of Confederation with the United Nations charter. In this extension, the term "State" refers to nation-states. This is one of three key transformations, the other two being:

• The term "House of Representatives" or "House" shall refer to a deliberative body composed of all the individuals enfranchised to vote in all of the member states.
  
  
• The term "Congress" shall refer to the House and the ancillary bodies which are charged with varyious supporting functions. There is no "division of powers" as such in this constitution and it therefore represents a level of direct democracy above whatever form of government is in place in the member States. The rationale for this is that the multiplicity of languages and cultures in the Union are a sufficient check on the abuse of power by any would be demagogues and as the mechanism herein defined eliminates the need for representative democracy, there is no grounds for any check on the power of the people.

Additionally, the term "United States" shall refer to the union of the member nation-states, thus the preamble of the original document can be carried forward with only the replacement of the word "America" by the national language terms choosen to designate the whole Earth. Where portions of the orginal constitution do not appear in the new one, they are deemed inapplicable or deleted. The constitution, upon ratification of the member states forms a world federal government to which the Nation States would bear exactly the same relation as the American States do to the American Union, as defined in the document. That is, just as the American colonies retained their particular forms of local organization subject to the Federal Charter, so the member nation-states would retain their local forms in the Global Federation. The Articles after Article One are renumbered so that the Bill of Rights comprises Articles Two thru Eleven, propagated unchanged.

• Article One
  • § I Propagated Unchanged.
  • • § II, ¶ I Propagated Unchanged.
    • § II, ¶ II

      The member States shall determine the age and other requirements of the enfranchised population, but no person shall be enfranchised to vote who has not attained the age of 18 years, nor be enfranchised in more than one State.

    • § II, ¶ III

      Subject to § II, ¶ II, no State shall disenfrachise its citizens for arbitary reasons or in violaton of thier basic human rights. For purposes of deliberation a quantum shall be defined called the "Elector" which is nothing more than a number of franchise holders and which shall not be smaller than that of the population of the smallest member state. The number of electors in a member state will be rounded down to the nearest whole number.
      
      The Elector quantum shall be 10 million, and no State will be admitted to the union without this many eligible franchisees. Prospective member states with populations smaller than this must aggregate into appropriate size units in order be economically and politically viable.

• Articles Two thru Eleven: The Original U.S. Bill of Rights, propagated unchanged.
• Article Twelve
  • § I

    A supporting body, called the "Senate" shall be formed for the purpose of formulating issues to be decided by the House. Each member state shall elect a single Senator who will serve a term determined by the laws of that state but not less than Two or more than Twenty years and whose other qualifications are to be defined by the member state except that the Senator must be an enfranchised citizen of that State as defined in Article I § II ¶ II.
    The Senators shall be elected every two years by a simple majority of the Electors in each of the states or a simple majority of the enfranchised population in the case of a state with a single Elector.

  • § II

    An International Civil Service shall be created as an ancillary body serving the Congress, administered by the Senate, and composed of Departments.
    
    

    • ¶ I A Department of Elections shall provide and administer a means for the House to vote electronically on the election of Senators and on specific proposed legislation. Such elections may be called at any time subject to the following rules:
      
      
      1. Senatorial elections must occur at the time of ratification of this constitution and every subsequent two years at which time all of the Senators shall stand for election.
         
         
      2. At most once during any Senatorial term, the Electors of a member state may call for the impeachment of a sitting Sentor upon a vote to do so of a simple majority of the Electors or of the whole enfranchised population if there is a single Elector.
         
         
      3. Any legislation posed before the house must be presented in the all the languages of all the member states in language which is as clear as possible and in terms of simple Affirmation or Rejection.
         
         
      4. Local elections may be called upon specific issues in the manner of a plebescite upon the call to do so of a simple majority of the electors of the member state.
         
         
      5. The department shall provide means to support these electoral activities as described in a fair, efficient, and verifiable manner.
      
      
      
    • ¶ II A Department of Health and Human Services shall provide universal health care as a single provider to all the citizens of each of the member states.
      
      
    • ¶ III A Department of Environmental Protection shall provide service to safeguard the common environment of mankind by providing the Senate with appropriate information for planning and legislative purposes.
      
      
    • ¶ IV A Department of Education and Cultural Affairs shall promote the preservation of the heritage of all cultures, universal high quality education, and support the development of new works of culture and art by subsidising artists and artisans in the member states.
      
      
    • ¶ V A Department shall act as a World Treasury as indicated in § III of this Article. It will be primarily administered locally by the member states and is intended to replace both such institutions as the World Bank, the IMF, and the nation-state and the one regional banking system but not internation, provincial or local private banks which will maintain the same relation to the World Treasury as private banks currently do to the national banks.
      
      
    • ¶ IV A Department of Peace and Security shall be created from national security, intelligence, and defense organizations of the member states as described in § IV of this Article.

  • § III

    • ¶ I The World Government will be self supporting and its Treasury shall issue a currency which will supercede the national currencies of the member states based on an International Monetary Unit. The currencies of the member states shall be convertible to the new unit at the same rates as they were to the Euro at the time of ratification.
      
      
    • ¶ II The economic policies of the Treasury Department shall be determined by a Board of Governors and a Council of Economic Advisors.
      
      
      • §§ I The Board of Governors will be be composed of representatives from different fields of labor nominated by local labor organizations and confirmed by the Electors on a by member state basis and who shall determine monetary policy under advisment from a Council of Economic Advisors.
        
        
      • §§ II A council of Economic Advisors shall be composed of experts in various areas of production and its members shall be nominated by international professional societies and confirmed by the Senate.
        
        
      • §§ III The relationship between the Board of Governors and the Council of Advisors shall be like that between the House and the Senate, with the Council of Advisors proposing policy and the Board of Governors voting on whether or not said policies shall be presented to the full House. The Department of Elections shall provide means for these two subbodies to co-operate and interact with the House and Senate in the form of technical comittees organized by production area with membership jointly composed of Governors and Advisors.
        
        
      
      
    • ¶ III The member states will contribute monies formerly collected at the national level for functions ceeded to the World government such as health, welfare, and defense to the World Treasury, returning any savings to the provincial and local governments and retaining only such funds as are required to administer the nations participation in the World government.

  • § IV

    • ¶ I War and other forms of violent conflict between and within member states is prohibited. The Department of Peace and Security shall enforce this. It will call on resources from other branches of the Civil Service as required. This department will also be charged with protecting the people of the world from any threats natural or otherwise which might arise with member or non member states, between states, or extraterestrially.
      
      
    • ¶ II In some future time, as a result of the colonization of other worlds, the discovery of other inhabited worlds, or both, it may be necessary for the people of this Union to represent themselves in an Executive power vested in a single individual. No such power is called for by this constitution but the Congress may take action to enact legislation to provide for such a contingency as an Amendment.

• Article Thirteen.

  A World Court shall be constituted from the preexisting body of that name for the purpose of adjudicating disputes between member states and applying the International Laws produced by the Congress. Its exact composition is to be determined by the member states during the ratification of this Constitution.