- WHEN DID THIS WORLD CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION BEGIN?
After the Second World War there was a great World Federalist movement. During the formation of the United Nations there was wide spread public debate about the necessity for a bonafide World Government. The experience with the League of Nations as a loose voluntary association of sovereign states, which was structurally doomed to failure, led to the valiant cry "Federalists of the World, Unite!" Unfortunately the United Nations was not founded upon sober appraisal or the failure of the League. As a journalist candidly observed at the beginning of the formation of the United Nations in San Francisco, at the time:
It is an awkward paradox that the first stirrings of internationalism seem to tend toward, rather than away from, nationalism. Almost everything you see and hear in San Francisco is an affirmation of the absolute state, a denial of the world community- the flags, the martial music, the uniforms, the secret parley, the delicate balance, the firm position, the diplomatic retreat. Ninety percent of the talk is not of how people shall be brought together but of the fascinating details of how they shall be kept apart. And under all is the steady throbbing of the engines: sovereignty, sovereignty, sovereignty.
[E.B. WHITE, THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE, MAY 5, 1943]
In 1945 through 1950 there were a series of proposals for the convening of a world Constitutional Convention. Dr. Albert Einstein, the great world patriot, who of the world government said, "Mankind’s desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government," and "There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government." In 1946 and 47’ he supported an earlier plan to call a world constitutional convention. One of these plans held in Geneva Switzerland failed when only 3 people attended.
It was in the context of these historic failures that the first successful attempts at convening a World constituent Assembly to begin a bonafide World Constitutional Convention began when Philip Isely and others from this movement started the world Constitution and Parliament Association in 1958. More than just a Club involved in theoretical discussions about the necessity for world government or the equally dead-end attempts to get the executives of the nationstates to secure the planetary peace, Philip Isely began to take seriously the idea that the sovereignty ultimately resides in human beings. WE THE PEOPLE could go ahead and take personal responsibility for the international anarchy and move beyond protest and endless chit-chat about the great necessity, and begin a process of actually drafting a CONSTITUTION FOR THE FEDERATION OF EARTH.
An idea whose time had come was finally born. In 1963 the historic Call went forth and a process was set in motion that led to the drafting of the Constitution. This process will continue. What was set in motion will continue until full and final ratification by every nation and people on Earth is attained. For not only is this constitution up for review every 10 years and Provisional World Government of people’s delegates exists to carry on the great campaign for ratification, but the process is so properly engineered that the Constitution will continue to evolve and gain momentum according to the progressive operation of the science of Federnomics, the only real POLITICAL science for the Planet Earth.
- WHO HAS PARTICIPATED IN THE WORLD CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION PROCESS?
"Some of the people and government leaders participating include 5 heads of government, - Lord Boyd Orr, Lord Attee, Lord Silken from the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Orlick from Costa Rica, Prime Minister Ayub Khan from Pakistan, Members of Parliament from India, Sri Lanka, Australia, United Kingdom, Brazil, Ghana, Nigeria, Costa Rica, Japan, France, Italy, and Germany, a renowned international lawyer from Switzerland, the late max Habicht, who represented his country at the League of Nations and the United Nations. Presidents of Universities include the late Archie Casely-Hayford from Ghana, who was also three time Cabinet Minister of Ghana, religious leaders from all over the world, and the architect of this movement an integrative engineer (deserving of a Doctorate in Advanced Federnomics) Philip Isely."
[excerpt from an address given to the Jamaican Kiwis February 8, 1988 by Margaret Isely (our co-founding parent, great inspiration, and successful businesswoman) parenthetical remark mine]
- HAVE THERE BEEN ANY OTHER WORLD CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS HELD?
No. Attempts to convene a World Constitutional Convention have been tried but failed. No other popular convention like this exists, nor has any other the legitimacy of the CONSTITUTION FOR THE FEDERATION OF EARTH. Nothing else comes close. Examine it for yourself and see. If you don’t think its perfect (according to an enlightened federnomics) join with us to make it better! We the People are as "official" as you can get. Anything else is just the collective dreaminess of the shadowy figures in the figures in the figments of our collective international nightmare. Won’t you awake from the deep sleep of the nations and help to usher in the great planetary Federation of Earth?
- WHAT HISTORICAL PRECEDENT EXISTS TO START A WORLD GOVERNMENT ANYWAY?
In the words of Hamilton and Madison, the great founding fathers authors of the definitive commentary of the U.S. Constitution, (my own home country) a federal Government which re-invents State sovereignty into higher representative bodies must abandon violence for law, and in place of the "DESTRUCTIVE COERCION OF THE SWORD", institute the "MILD AND SALUTARY COERCION OF THE MAGISTRACY". [The Federalist No. 20]
- CAN YOU LIST THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION?
1958 Formation of a WORLD CONSTITUTION & PARLIAMENT ASSOCIATION of diverse groups of people and government leaders,
1958-1961 AGREEMENT TO CALL A WORLD CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION circulated worldwide inviting governments and groups of people to send delegates,
1963 CALL TO THE FIRST SESSION OF THE WORLD CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION with world leaders and distinguished people from 50 countries joining the grand Global Federal Convention process, including 4 Prime Ministers, a President, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
1965 SECOND PREPARATORY CONFERENCE at Milan, Italy initiates "The Comprehensive Outline for the Debate and Drafting of a World Constitution" with 300 Peoples delegates committing themselves to attend,
1968 FIRST DRAFT SUBMITTED WORLDWIDE in the city Hall of Wolfach, West Germany begins the task of intensive work debating and drafting for over two months the Draft which came to be known as the Constitution for the Federation of Earth,
1968-1970’s COMMITTEE OF DETAIL meets again after receiving comments to prepare a revised draft. REVISED DRAFT CIRCULATED WORLWIDE with a new Call to the second session, now called the World Constituent Assembly. The revised draft and Call with invitation to send delegates was sent to every national government on the planet and peoples all around the world,
1977 SECOND SESSION OF THE WORLD CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY meets in Innsbruck, Austria. The founding parents went over the Constitutional Draft in excruciating detail. After great debate the Constitution for the Federation of Earth is adopted with only one dissenting voice and signed by 138 participants from over 25 countries from 6 continents. A UNIVERSAL CALL FOR RATIFICATION BY THE NATIONS AND PEOPLE OF EARTH is sent to the United Nations, to every national government on Earth, and given worldwide circulation as well,
1979 THIRD WORLD CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY is held at Colombo, Sri Lanka. Plans are developed for advancing worldwide ratification in lieu of continued international anarchy. A RATIONALE FOR A WORLD CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY is adopted reaffirming the inalienable right of the people to exercise popular sovereignty and take whatever lawful action is necessary to establish a democratic non-military federal world government,
1982 FIRST PROVISIONAL WORLD PARLIAMENT CONVENES in Brighten, England according to the specific provisions of Article 19 of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth. World Legislative Bills numbers One through Five are adopted,
1985 SECOND PROVISIONAL WORLD PARLIAMENT CONVENES in Miami Beach, USA adopting World Legislative Bills numbers Nine through Eleven, with the further step planned since 1977 of establishing the Provisional World Presidium and Cabinet to serve alongside the Provisional World Government until 25 countries have ratified the constitution for the Federation of Earth,
1988 FIRST MEETING OF THE PREPARATORY COMMITTEE to prepare for the Fourth world Constituent assembly in Manhattan, USA (for which I am preparing this World Citizen’s Guide. May providence grant success to the FEDERATION OF EARTH and our great Planetary Charter!)
[The following was extensively borrowed from the PLAN FOR COLLABORATION IN ORGANIZING A WORLD CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY FOR 1990 PREPARED BY Philip Isely.]
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