March 20, 1995 November 10, 1992
CONSTITUTION OF THE WORLD
We, the people of planet Earth, in order to form a more perfect world based on a
sustainable environment for the benefit of all generations of all nature and for the
defense of civilization; establish and provide justice; insure tranquility; provide for
peace; promote and enhance the dignity and mutual respect among humankind, government, and
the environment; accept responsibility for our own free will actions; accept mutual
responsibility for each other with all relationships being governed supremely by truth;
and secure the blessings of life, liberty, opportunity, and the pursuit of happiness to
ourselves and our posterity, establish and accept this Constitution for the World.
ARTICLE I: ORGANIZATION
The world government organization shall be a central sovereign Federation with five
Regions that cooperate with all the Nation- States.
The Federation and each Region consist of Legislative (Congress: Business Committees in
the Federation and each Region; and Houses of Congress - a Senate in the Federation, and a
House of Representatives in each Region), Executive (President), and Judicial (Supreme
Court, lesser courts, mediators) Powers.
ARTICLE II: ENVIRONMENT
1. The Federation shall have the responsibility to protect
nature. All policies, including economic, shall provide for
a sustainable environment. Environmental crimes are crimes
against humanity. The responsible person or head of the
responsible organization or corporation shall be accountable
for environmental crimes. The Congress of the Federation is
responsible for establishing and enforcing acceptable
policies.
2. Every non-food product shall be designed to have a
greater longevity and reliability than the product type it
is replacing and will be priced to include a rebate that at
least doubly compensates for the environmental impact of its
production process, material, use, service, and disposal.
The Congress of the Federation shall determine the method of
this rebate. Half the rebate shall be used by the product
or service provider to improve the environment. The other
half shall be provided to developing countries for the
preservation of their environment. The rebate amount shall
be displayed on the product with other ecologic information.
The Congress of the Federation in cooperation with the
Regions shall allocate these funds and shall be responsible
for establishing and enforcing acceptable policies.
ARTICLE III: ECONOMY
1. Maintaining a sustainable environment shall be an
absolute limit to economic change.
2. The Congress of the Federation shall provide for a
central World Bank and a bank in each Region where all
deposits shall be secure, a world currency which shall be
based on the price of gold, and for establishing and
enforcing acceptable policies for dealing with
counterfeiting the securities and coin of the Federation.
3. The Congresses of the Federation and Regions shall have
the power to levy and collect taxes, and to lend, borrow,
and regulate money based on sound economic principles and to
distribute Federation funds to Regions and Nation-States for
attaining and maintaining the most equitable distribution of
opportunity to all citizens in the most expeditious manner
within the limits provided herein. Annual monetary growth
shall be determined by the population growth, the needs of
the citizens, and the desired improvement in the standard of
living that can be provided within sustainable environmental
limits. The public debt of the Federation and Regions,
authorized by law shall be valid, except debt or obligation
incurred in the aid of insurrection or rebellion against the
Federation, Regions, or any Nation-State of the Federation
shall be held illegal and void. Money can be drawn from the
treasury of the Federation or Regions only through
appropriations made by law and documented, at least
annually, with audited financial statements based on accrual
accounting methods that include environmental depreciation.
The defense budget shall never exceed the medical or
educational budget except during war.
4. The Congresses of the Federation and Regions shall be
required to provide five year plans with mission statements
and specified intermediate goals and monitoring procedures
that balance the budget using accrual accounting methods.
The Federation budget shall consider long term important
benefits as well as short term and urgent requirements. To
this end, at least one, three, and six percent of the annual
budget shall be allocated to programs that provide returns
greater than twenty-five, ten, and five years respectively.
5. The Congress of the Federation shall regulate Commerce.
All member Nation-States shall maintain free trade, free
flow of capital, and competitive access to energy and raw
materials. Relations between Nation-States shall be
founded on respect and cooperation.
6. The Congresses of the Federation and Regions shall pro-
vide the means and adequate autonomy to the capable local
institutions to implement the desired policies and programs.
The Federation and Regions have the responsibility to
monitor these programs and provide assistance when
necessary. All agencies and programs receiving funding from
the Federation or Regions shall specify ethics policy, goals
with milestones, responsible parties, and recommend
procedures for periodic monitoring. The Federation and
Regions shall focus on results and have the option of
establishing competition for Federation or Regionally funded
agencies or programs. Each agency, or program shall be
required to have a periodic vote of confidence to continue.
7. The Congress of the Federation shall fix the standard of
weights and measures using the metric system.
8. The Congresses of the Regions shall provide employment
for any person who desires work and is unable to obtain
employment. All people receiving supplementary benefits
shall participate in programs that shall guide them to
independence. Supplementary benefits shall be adequate to
provide security, meet essential human needs and enable each
person to exercise their legitimate rights with dignity.
All people have the right of equal access to public service.
9. The wealthiest five percent of the population cannot
accumulate in excess of twenty-five percent of the total
wealth. Each citizen shall be provided money in an interest
bearing account at birth as a gift from the Federation. The
citizen can start using this money upon reaching the age of
eighteen years. When able, the Federation shall periodical-
ly provide additional funds at different threshold ages in
order to expand the opportunities for its citizens.
10. The method of providing Social Security, Retirement,
Medical, Supplemental Benefits and other Social programs
shall be the responsibility of the Nation-States. The
retirement age is expected to vary with the average
longevity of the people in the Nation-State. The Federation
or Regions, however, may provide funds to the Nation-States
for these programs based on need and meeting the
requirements of the Federation.
11. Federation purchases for product or services require
competitive bids based on verifiable data about costs and
quality of performance. A non-political body shall be
responsible for Federation purchasing and careful monitoring
of all contracts and safety.
12. Government and Corporations shall cooperate to protect
the environment, develop technology, increase efficiency,
decrease transaction costs, and enhance the ability of
Corporations to meet their social, moral, environmental and
economic responsibilities to the community, consumer,
vendors, employees and shareholders. The Congress of the
Federation shall provide statutory protection for
Corporations and assure fair prices for consumers.
13. An amount not less than ten percent of the shares or
revenue of any Corporate public offering shall be provided
to the Federation. The Congress of the Federation shall be
responsible for establishing and enforcing acceptable
policies.
14. Campaign funds shall be provided by the respective
Congress of the Federation or Region and shall be
distributed equally to qualified candidates. Prior to
receiving the funds, the candidates shall be required to
answer, in writing, up to five questions on relevant
issues submitted by opposing candidates, who shall also, in
writing, answer the same questions. No funds shall be
provided to organizations that discriminate. The funds can
only be used for the election process and any unused funds
must be returned after the election. The respective
Congress shall be responsible for establishing and
enforcing acceptable policies.
ARTICLE IV: EDUCATION
1. The power and ability to enact and enforce this
Constitution is based on educated and informed people.
Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be
free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages.
Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and
professional education shall be made generally available and
higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the
basis of merit.
2. Education shall be directed to the full development of
the human personality and to the strengthening of respect
for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote
ecologic conservation and understanding, including under-
standing the relationship between population size and
carrying capacity of natural systems, as well as tolerance,
and friendship among all nations, racial or religious
groups, and shall further the activities of the Federation
for the maintenance of a sustainable environment and peace.
3. Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of
education that shall be given to their children. The family
should be limited to a size that can provide the means for
education and a loving and nurturing environment for each
child.
4. Everyone has the right freely to participate in the
cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to
share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
5. The Congress of the Federation, in cooperation with the
Congresses of the Regions and designated agency of each of
the member Nation-States shall provide, in the most
expeditious manner possible the means, including electronic
means, available to every person, to educate and inform them
and shall make available all published material to all
humankind. When literacy reaches at least seventy percent
in a Nation-State a determination whether to limit popula-
tion growth will be made.
6. Family counseling centers will be provided within one-
half hour from the residence of participants. Such services
will be adopted to each country's cultural, religious, and
social traditions.
ARTICLE V: ETHICS
1. All Federation and Regional proceedings shall be public
unless they are related to the vital security of the
Federation, Regions, or Nation-States. The Federation
President or the Senate shall have the power to order
secrecy for up to six months with a maximum of two renewals.
2. All Federation and Regional programs or organizations
shall have ethics policies approved prior to funding.
3. The respective House of Congress shall establish ethics
review boards to provide ethics guidelines, and to aid the
implementation and monitoring of ethics programs. Any
person or organization may bring ethics issues to the board
for a binding ruling.
4. Any crimes against the Federation or Regions are crimes
against the people. Any indicted Federation or Regional
employee shall be tried by a jury of opposite peers (the
rich shall be tried by the poor, and vice versa) and if
found guilty of violating the law: must return to the
Federation or Regions what was taken; be punished at three
times the normal punishment of the law; not be eligible for
other employment by the Federation or Regions for ten years
or for life if the crime is treason unless two-thirds of the
respective House of Congress votes to remove this
restriction. Punishment is related solely to type and
extent of the crime, with no other considerations.
5. A Federation or Regional employee shall not work directly
or indirectly for a corporation or organization that was
involved in any way with the employee until five years have
elapsed since that involvement.
6. Legislative, Executive, Judicial and government
employee's decisions shall be made free of manipulation and
coercion. No capital, directly or indirectly, shall be used
to influence any political agenda other than to provide
accurate information which shall be made equally accessible
to each legislative, executive, judicial and government
employee as well as each citizen of the world.
7. No Federation or Regional employee shall, without the
consent of the respective House of Congress, accept gifts,
emoluments, or office of any kind whatsoever.
ARTICLE VI: HUMAN RIGHTS
1. All people are citizens of the world and everyone is
entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth herein,
without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex,
language, religion, political or other opinion, national or
social origin, property, birth, or other status. No one
shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave
trade shall be prohibited in all their forms. Everyone has
the right to life, liberty, equal opportunity and security
of person.
2. Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a
person before the law. All are equal before the law and are
entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of
the law. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest,
detention or exile. Excessive bail shall not be required,
nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual
punishments inflicted. Everyone is entitled in full
equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and
impartial tribunal, in the determination of their rights and
obligations and of any criminal charge against them.
Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be
presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a
public trial at which they have had all the guarantees
necessary for their defence. No one shall be held guilty of
any penal offence on account of any act or omission which
did not constitute a penal offence at the time when it was
committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the
one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was
committed. No person shall be compelled in any penal case
to be a witness against themselves. Everyone has the right
to an effective remedy by a competent tribunal for acts
violating the fundamental rights granted herein.
3. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with
their privacy, family, home, or correspondence, nor to
attacks upon their honor and reputation. Everyone has the
right to the protection of the law against such interference
or attacks.
4. Indigenous people in any member Nation-State shall be
guaranteed secure rights to their substantive base.
5. Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and
residence within the borders of each state. Everyone has
the right to leave any country, including their own, and to
return to their country. Everyone has the right to seek and
to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. This
right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions
genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts
contrary to the purposes and principles herein.
6. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of their property.
7. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience
and religion; this right includes freedom to change their
religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in
community with others and in public or private, to manifest
their religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and
observance. Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion
and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions
without interference and to seek, receive and impart
information and ideas through any media and regardless of
frontiers except that information must be true and
accurate. Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful
assembly and association. No one may be compelled to belong
to an association. Citizens shall have a right and
responsibility to express their views, provide
recommendations, and criticize government. The Federation
and Regions have the responsibility to encourage such
activity. To this end, the respective Congress shall
provide readily available education that represent all
prominent views on major issues to the public at no charge
and shall provide mechanisms to receive feedback from the
public.
8. The will of the people shall be expressed in periodic
fair, and genuine elections which shall be by universal and
equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by
equivalent free voting procedures. All people eighteen
years or older shall have the right to vote in all
Federation and Regional elections and this shall not be
denied or abridged, other than for treason or felonies, by
the Federation or Regions.
9. In the exercise of their rights and freedoms, everyone
shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined
by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition
and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of
meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and
the general welfare in a democratic society. These rights
and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the
purposes and principles herein. The enumeration in this
Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to
deny or disparage others retained by the people.
10. Nothing in this Constitution may be interpreted as
implying for the Federation or any Region, Nation-State,
group, or person any right to engage in any activity or to
perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the
rights and freedoms set forth herein. The powers not
delegated to the Federation or Regions by this Constitution,
nor prohibited by it to the Nation-States, are reserved for
the Nation-States respectively, or for the people.
ARTICLE VII: RELIGIOUS COOPERATION
1. The Federation shall support an organization to serve as
a forum for the genuine religions in the world, at their
option, to discuss issues and make recommendations.
ARTICLE VIII: TECHNOLOGY
1. The Congress of the Federation shall develop long and
short term overall technology policies that include goals,
performance, safety considerations, reporting criteria,
ethics, social and environmental impact, and methods of
monitoring that address energy and social requirements as
well as basic research and development and establish
mechanisms for the technology coordination between
Corporations and the Federation. Particular safety and
ethics standards shall be established for biotechnology
research and products.
2. The Congress of the Federation shall be responsible for
setting communication standards for the Federation, Regions,
and between member Nation-States including worldwide
allocation of the electromagnetic spectrum, postal service,
telephone service, radio and television services, and data
and video services and for providing recommendations to the
Nation-States for communications standards. The Congress of
the Federation shall be responsible for establishing and
maintaining equal access to public information.
3. The Congress of the Federation shall promote the progress
of the sciences and arts by securing for everyone, for a
limited time, the protection of the moral and material
interests resulting from any scientific, literary or
artistic production of which they are the author.
ARTICLE IX: DEFENSE
1. The Congress of the Federation shall provide for the
common defense; raise, support and call forth armed services
to execute the laws of the Federation, suppress insurrec-
tion and repel invasion; declare war, and provide for the
security and general welfare of each member Nation-State.
2. No mass destruction weapons shall be permitted when all
Nation-States are part of the Federation or when the
Federation has adequate, enforceable, and verifiable
agreement with non-Federation Nation-States that would
eliminate all mass destruction weapons; then all mass
destruction weapons and specific material used for mass
destruction weapons shall be destroyed in the most
expeditious and safe manner and all weapons shall be limited
to single action devices. All Regions and member Nation-
States shall be limited in the amount and type of weapons
such that no Region or group of Nation-States can threaten
the Federation. Forces of the Region or Nation-State shall
only be used for defense, maintaining internal civil
tranquility or providing social services as described
herein. In all cases, force shall be limited to reciprocity
unless the existence of the Federation, Regions, or Nation-
States is at risk. The Congress of the Federation shall be
responsible for establishing and enforcing acceptable
policies.
3. The Congress of the Federation shall be responsible for
establishing and enforcing acceptable policies that shall
limit commerce in weapons to single action devices.
4. The President of the Federation or Regions or the
respective House of Congress of the Federation or Regions
can deploy defense personnel for civil and social service
support; including, rapid deployment of goods and services
necessary to maintain life.
ARTICLE X: TRANSITION TO FEDERATION
1. The Federation desires to include all Nation-States.
The only requirement for becoming a member of the Federation
is that the member Nation-State shall abide by all the
principles in this Constitution.
2. All debts between new member Nation-State and other
Federation members shall be forgiven upon joining the
Federation.
ARTICLE XI: GUARANTEES TO NATION-STATES
1. Nation-States shall be guaranteed, by the Federation, the
option to achieve a democratic form of government, and to be
protected against invasion and domestic violence.
2. Nation-States shall be guaranteed, by the Federation,
defined boundaries. To change boundaries shall require an
affirmative vote of two-thirds of the population of the
affected area and a majority of the population of the Region
involved.
3. Nation-States shall have the right to maintain royalty
only when it is consistent with the rights of individuals.
4. Nation-States shall each determine the laws governing
property consistent with the rights of individuals.
5. Nation-States shall have the choice of electing
Federation and Regional delegates through a popular vote,
typically to be used by more advanced Nation-States, or
through an electorate, typically to be used by developing
Nation-States.
6. Nation-States shall recognize one another's acts,
contracts, wills and civil judgements and the Congress of
the Federation may by general laws prescribe the manner in
which such acts, contracts, wills and civil judgements shall
be proved, and the effect thereof. A person charged in any
Nation-State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall
flee from justice, and be found in another Nation-State,
shall, on demand of the executive authority of the Nation-
State from which they fled, be delivered to the Nation-State
having jurisdiction of the crime.
7. Nation-States shall have the right and responsibility
to experiment with new political ideas. Any new system
shall not violate basic rights.
ARTICLE XII: POWERS DENIED TO THE NATION-STATES
1. No Nation-State shall enter into any treaty, alliance,
or confederation, or opt out of the Federation.
2. No Nation-State shall seize property from another Nation
State.
3. No Nation-State shall coin money other than coin of face
value at the time of coinage.
4. No Nation-State shall pass any law impairing the
obligation of contracts.
5. No Nation-State shall lay any tariffs but may provide for
inspection of goods entering that Nation-State.
6. No Nation-State shall keep ships or aircraft of war, or
any weapons of mass destruction, unless actually invaded,
or in such imminent danger as shall not admit of delay.
7. No Nation-State shall decrease current natural reserves.
ARTICLE XIII: POWERS DENIED TO THE FEDERATION AND REGIONS
1. No titles of nobility shall be granted.
2. Nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to
prejudice any claims of the Federation or any particular
Nation-State.
ARTICLE XIV: GENERAL
1. The dignity of the individual shall always be a primary
consideration of the Federation and Regions.
2. During periodic elections, but at least annually, the
people will be required to vote separately for or against
the current Federation and applicable Regional government.
If there is a no confidence vote by the majority of those
voting than the entire Federation or applicable Regional
government receiving this no confidence majority vote will
be required to have elections within a three month period
for all members of the respective Federal or Regional
government except newly elected members. If there is a
pro-confidence vote by the majority of those voting than no
additional voting will be necessary.
3. The Federation and Regions shall provide centralized
policy coordination and decentralized implementation.
4. The language of the Federation shall be English but the
Federation has no right to impose any language requirements
on the Nation-States.
5. Cities shall be set aside for felons. The criminals
shall be required to reside and maintain themselves within
the city limits.
6. The fourth Thursday of every November is declared Trans-
Cultural Day and shall be observed throughout the world.
ARTICLE XV: SUPREMACY OF CONSTITUTION
1. This Constitution, and the laws of the Federation which
shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all international
agreements made, or which shall be made, under the authority
of the Federation, shall be the final law of the world; and
the judges in the Federation and every Region and every
member Nation-State shall be bound thereby, anything in the
Constitution or laws of any Region or member Nation-States
to the contrary notwithstanding.
ARTICLE XVI: OATH OF OFFICE
1. All officers of the Federation shall be bound by oath or
affirmation to support this Constitution, but no
discriminatory test other than as described herein shall
ever be required as a qualification for any office or public
trust under the Federation.
ARTICLE XVII: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
A. QUALIFICATIONS, ELECTION AND TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1. Each member of the House of Representatives shall be at
least 25 years of age and a member of the represented Region
for at least 10 years and a member of the represented
Nation-State for at least 5 years. The members shall be
chosen every fourth year by the Nation-State at the time,
place, and in a manner determined by the Nation-State but
the respective House of Representatives may make or alter
such regulations. They shall be divided immediately after
being assembled into two classes so that one-half may be
chosen every second year. Each Representative shall have a
vote which represents the population of the respective
district that did not vote directly. The terms of members
of the House of Representatives shall end at noon on the
third day of January, of the year in which such terms have
ended, and their successors shall begin.
B. APPORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES
1. Representatives shall be apportioned among the Nation-
States according to their respective number based on the
last census, or if there is no census, based on the best
estimate by the Senate until the next ten year period when a
worldwide census shall be required. Each Nation-State with
a population of less than two million people shall have one
representative in the House of Representatives of the
respective Region. Otherwise, the number of representatives
shall not exceed one for every two million people.
C. OFFICERS
1. The Vice President of the Region shall be President of
the respective House of Representatives, but shall have no
vote, unless they be equally divided. Each House of Repre-
sentatives shall choose its own officers, and also a Presi-
dent pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice President, or
when the Vice President shall exercise the Office of the
President.
D. IMPEACHMENT
1. Each House of Representatives shall have the power of
impeachment of any officers of the respective Region
including Business Committee members. The Senate shall have
the power to try all such impeachments. When sitting for
that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation. When
the President of a Region is tried, the respective Chief of
Justice of that Region shall preside. No person shall be
convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the
members present.
2. Judgement in cases of impeachment shall not extend beyond
removal from office. The party convicted shall nevertheless
be liable and subject to indictment, trial, and judgement
according to the law and ethics of the respective Region.
ARTICLE XVIII: SENATE
A. QUALIFICATIONS, ELECTION AND TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1. Each member of the Senate shall be at least 30 years of
age and a member of the represented Region for at least 10
years. The members shall be chosen every sixth year by the
Nation-States at a time, place, and in a manner determined
by the Nations-States, but the Senate may make or alter such
regulations. They shall be divided immediately after being
assembled into three classes so that one-third may be chosen
every second year. Each Senator shall have a vote which
represents the population of the respective district that
did not vote directly. The terms of members of the Senate
shall end at noon on the third day of January of the year in
which such terms have ended, and their successors shall
begin.
B. APPORTIONMENT OF SENATORS
1. The Senate shall be composed of twenty Senators from each
Region. Not more than two Federation Senators shall be from
any one Nation-State.
C. OFFICERS
1. The Vice President of the Federation shall be President
of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be
equally divided. The Senate shall choose its own officers,
and also a President pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice
President, or when the Vice President shall exercise the
office of the President.
D. IMPEACHMENT
1. The Senate shall have the power of impeachment of any
Federation officers including Federation Business Committee
members, and the combined Houses of Representatives of all
Regions shall jointly have the power to try all such
impeachments. When sitting for that purpose, they shall be
on oath or affirmation. When the President of the
Federation is tried, the Chief of Justice of the Federation
shall preside. No person shall be convicted without the
concurrence of two-thirds of the members present.
2. Judgement in cases of impeachment shall not extend beyond
removal from office. The party convicted shall nevertheless
be liable and subject to indictment, trial, and judgement
according to the Federation's laws and ethics.
ARTICLE XIX: BUSINESS COMMITTEE
A. QUALIFICATION, ELECTION AND TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1. Each member of the Business Committee shall be at least
25 years of age and a member of the represented Region for
at least 7 years. The members shall be chosen every second
year by a vote among the largest one thousand Transnational
Corporations in each Region at a time, place, and in a
manner determined by the Nation-State, but the respective
House of Congress may make or alter such regulations.
Transnational Corporations are Corporations with one or more
offices or plants in more than one region. The Transnation-
al Corporation shall have one vote for a Federation Member
and one vote for each seat of the Business Committee in the
Region where the Corporation's greatest assets are located.
Each Business Committee Member shall have one vote in the
Committee. The terms of members of the Business Committee
shall end at noon on the third day of January of the year in
which such terms have ended, and their successors shall
begin.
B. APPORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES
1. The Business Committee of the Federation shall be
composed of one member from each region and the number of
members of the Business Committee of each Region shall be
equal to five percent of the nearest odd number of members
of the House of Representatives of the respective Region.
C. OFFICERS
1. The Business Committee shall choose their Speaker and
other officers.
ARTICLE XX: CONGRESS
A. MEETING OF CONGRESS
1. Each Congressional member of the Federation and Region
shall be provided with telecommunications equipment that
provides voice, video, and data capabilities. All govern-
ment communication numbers shall be made available to all
members of Congress. This shall be the primary means of
holding meetings. Members shall be required to meet at
least monthly.
B. RULES OF PROCEDURE
1. Each House of Congress and Business Committee shall be
responsible for determining the rules of its proceedings
and judging elections. A majority of each House of Congress
and Business Committee shall constitute a quorum. The time
and agenda of meetings shall be made available to all
members in advance.
2. Each House of Congress and Business Committee shall keep
a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish
the same but at least every six months, excepting such parts
as may be required for security and then never exceeding two
years. The yeas and nays of the members of Congress on any
question shall be entered in the Journal.
C. COMPENSATION, PRIVILEGES AND RESTRICTIONS
1. Members of Congress of the Federation and Regions shall
receive a compensation for their services to be ascertained
by law and paid out of the Treasury of the Federation or
Region respectively. No member shall be granted a raise
until at least one re-election to office. They shall in all
cases except treason and felony be privileged from arrest.
2. No member of Congress of the Federation or Regions shall
hold any other office or employment.
D. LAW
1. How Federation and Regional bills become law. All bills
of the Federation and Regions shall originate in the
respective House of Congress. The bill shall be presented
to the Business Committee of the Federation or respective
Region who shall have two weeks to propose amendments prior
to the bill being submitted to the respective House of
Congress. Every bill which shall have passed the Senate or
the respective House of Representatives by a majority vote
of all citizens which is determined by permitting each
citizen to vote directly or by proxy through their
respective representative, before it becomes law, requires
signed approval by the President of the Federation or the
respective Region, the head of the Business Committee of the
Federation or respective Region representing the majority of
the Business Committee, and shall receive no written
objections from the House of Representatives of any Region
for a Federation bill or from the Senate for a Regional
bill, a vote by such House of Congress not being required.
If the President of the Federation or respective Region
does not approve, they shall return it to the Senate or
respective House of Representatives with their objections,
who shall proceed to reconsider it. If after such reconsid-
eration, two thirds of the Senate or respective House of
Representatives shall agree to pass the bill, it shall
become law. If any bill shall not be returned by the
President within two weeks after it has been presented to
them, it shall be in like manner as if they had signed it.
If a majority of the Business Committee of the Federation
or respective Region does not approve, they shall return it
to the Senate or respective House of Representatives with
their objections, who, with the Business Committee shall
proceed to reconsider it. If after such reconsideration, a
majority of the Senate or respective House of Representa-
tives combined with the Business Committee where each member
has a vote equal to the average number of votes for the
respective respresenatives, shall agree to pass the bill, it
shall become law. If any bill shall not be returned by the
Business Committee within two weeks after it has been
presented to them, it shall be in like manner as if they had
signed it.
If a majority of the House of Representatives of any
Region chooses to vote on a Federation bill or a majority
of the Senate of the Federation chooses to vote on a
Regional bill and does not approve it by a majority vote,
they shall return it to the House of Congress that
originated the bill with their objections, who shall proceed
to reconsider it. If after such reconsideration, two thirds
of the House of Congress that originated the bill shall
agree to pass the bill, it shall become law. If any bill
shall not be returned by the House of Representatives of any
Region or by the Senate within two weeks after it has been
presented to them, it shall be in like manner as if they had
signed it.
Each law enacted shall have a limit on its duration not
to exceed thirty years. The law may be reinstated before it
expires after appropriate review. All court decisions
related to any reinstated law remain applicable.
2. Inferior Courts. The Senate for the Federation and the
House of Representatives for the respective Region shall
have the responsibility to constitute tribunals inferior to
the Supreme Court including traveling and resident
mediators.
3. Supreme Court Balance. A general citizen vote of the
Federation or respective Region on any respective Federation
or Regional Supreme Court decision shall be called whenever
two-thirds of the respective House of Congress deem it
necessary.
4. Method of Constitutional Amendment. Two-thirds of any
House of Congress or two-thirds of the Nation-States shall,
when deemed necessary, propose amendments to this
Constitution which shall be valid, to all intents and
purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by
three-fourths of the respective member Nation-States, or by
conventions in three-fourths of the respective member
Nation-States. No member Nation-State, without its consent,
shall be deprived of its equal suffrage.
5. Jurisdiction. The Congresses of the Federation and
Regions shall have the power to make all laws which shall be
necessary and proper for carrying into execution the
foregoing powers, and shall have all other powers vested by
this Constitution in the government of the Federation,
Region, or in any department or officer thereof.
E. POWERS GRANTED TO CONGRESS
1. The Congress of the Federation shall have the power to
make all needful rules and regulations respecting the
territory or other property belonging to the Federation.
2. The Congresses of the Regions shall have the power to
make all needful rules and regulations respecting the
territory or other property belonging to the respective
Region.
3. The Congress of the Federation shall have the power to
make all needful rules and regulations respecting relations
with non-Federation Nation-States, international
territories, space, and other celestial bodies.
ARTICLE XXI: EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
A. COMMUNICATIONS
1. The President of the Federation and each Region shall be
provided with telecommunications equipment that provides
voice, video, and data capabilities. All government
communication numbers shall be made available to each
President.
B. ELECTION AND TERM
1. The executive power shall be vested in a President of the
Federation and in a President of each Region. Each
President shall be at least thirty-five years of age. The
President jointly with the Vice President shall be chosen
every four years by receiving the largest number of votes in
the applicable jurisdiction in a general election. If at
the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the
President, the President elect shall have died or become
incapacitated, the Vice President elect shall become
President. No person shall be elected to the Office of the
President more than twice. The term of the President
together with the Vice President shall end at noon on the
twentieth of January of the year in which such terms have
ended, and their successors shall begin.
C. ELECTIONS
1. The Senate may determine the day of choosing the
electors, which day shall be the same throughout the
Federation.
D. VACANCY
1. In case of the removal of the President from office or
their death or resignation, the Vice President shall become
President.
2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice
President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who
shall take office upon confirmation by a majority of the
respective House of Congress.
3. Whenever any President or the respective Vice President
and a majority of either the respective principal officers
of that executive department or of such other body as the
respective House of Congress may by law provide, transmits
to the President pro tempore of the respective House of
Congress a written declaration that the respective President
is unable to discharge the powers and duties of office, such
power and duties shall be discharged by the respective Vice
President as Acting President, until the respective
President and a majority of either the respective principal
officers of the executive department or of such other body
as the respective House of Congress may by law provide,
transmit to them a written declaration to the contrary.
E. COMPENSATION, PRIVILEGES, AND RESTRICTIONS
1. The Presidents and Vice Presidents of the Federation and
Regions shall receive a compensation for their service, to
be ascertained by law and paid out of the Treasury of the
Federation or Region respectively. They shall in all cases
except treason and felony, be privileged from arrest.
2. Neither the President or Vice President of the Federation
or Regions shall hold any other office or employment.
F. OATH OF OFFICE
1. The Presidents of the Federation and Regions, before
executing the Office of the President, shall take the
following oath or affirmation:-"I do solemnly swear (or
affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of
President of the Federation (Region) and will to the best of
my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of
the World."
G. POWERS GRANTED TO THE PRESIDENT
1. Military Power. The President of the Federation shall be
commander-in-chief of the armed services of the Federation
and the militia of the Regions and Nation-States when called
into actual service of the Federation. The Regional
Presidents or Chief Executives of the Nation-States may
request military assistance from the President of the
Federation who has the option of providing this assistance.
The President of the Federation must within three days
request the Senate to affirm the decision. A two-thirds
majority vote by the Senate within three days of the
presentation of the issue shall be necessary to override the
decision of the President. The Chief Executive of a Nation-
State may request military assistance from the President of
the Region who has the option of providing this assistance.
The President of the Region must within three days request
the respective House of Representatives to affirm the
decision. A two-thirds majority vote by the respective
House of Representatives within three days of the
presentation of the issue shall be necessary to override the
decision of the President.
2. Cabinet. The Presidents of the Federation and Regions
may each convene principal officers in each of the executive
departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of
their respective offices.
3. Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons. The Presidents of
the Federation and Regions shall have power to grant
reprieves and pardons for offenses against the Federation or
Regions respectively, except in cases of impeachment.
4. Treaties, Appointments. The Presidents of the Federation
and Regions shall have power, by and with the advice and
consent of two-thirds of the respective Congress, to make
treaties.
The Presidents of the Federation and Regions shall nominate,
and by and with the advice and consent of a majority of the
respective House of Congress, shall appoint judges of the
Supreme Court.
The Presidents of the Federation and Regions shall nominate,
and by and with the advice and consent of a majority of the
respective House of Congress, shall appoint ambassadors,
other public ministers and consuls, and all other officers
of the Federation or Regions respectively, whose appoint-
ments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall
be established by law, but the respective Congress may by
law vest the appointment of such other officers as they
think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law,
or in the heads of departments.
H. DUTIES OF THE PRESIDENT
1. The Presidents of the Federation and Regions shall from
time to time give to the respective Congress information of
the state of the respective Federation or Regions and
recommend for the respective Congressional consideration
such measures as they shall judge necessary and expedient.
The Presidents of the Federation and Regions may, on
extraordinary occasions, convene the respective Congress,
and in case of disagreement, the time of adjournment.
2. The Presidents of the Federation and Regions shall
receive ambassadors and other public ministers.
3. The Presidents of the Federation and Regions shall take
care that the laws be faithfully executed.
4. The Presidents of the Federation and Regions shall
commission all officers of the respective Federation or
Region.
I. IMPEACHMENT
1. The Presidents, Vice Presidents and all civil officers
of the Federation or Regions shall be removed from office on
impeachment for, and conviction of treason, bribery or other
high crimes.
ARTICLE XXII: JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
A. COMMUNICATIONS
1. Each judge and mediator shall be provided with
telecommunications equipment that provides voice, video, and
data capabilities. All government communication numbers
shall be made available to each judge and mediator.
B. THE FEDERAL COURTS
1. The Supreme Court shall function as a socially
responsible body and decisions shall be in the context of
law and society.
2. The judicial power of the Federation and Regions shall be
vested in a Supreme Court for the Federation and a Supreme
Court for each of the Regions and in inferior courts
including traveling and resident mediators. Each Supreme
Court justice shall be at least thirty-five years of age and
the judges of the Supreme Court and inferior courts shall
hold their offices during good behavior, and shall, at
stated times receive a compensation for their service, to
which shall not be diminished during their continuance in
office. The compensation shall be ascertained by law and
paid out of the Treasury of the Federation or Region
respectively. They shall in all cases except treason and
felony be privileged from arrest.
3. No Federation or Regional judge shall hold any other
office or employment.
C. JURISDICTION OF THE FEDERATION COURTS
1. Federation Courts in General. The judicial power of the
Federation Courts shall extend to all cases in law and
equity, arising under this constitution, the laws of the
Federation and treaties made or which shall be made under
their authority or between Regions; to all Federation
ministers and consuls; to all cases affecting Federation or
international territory or space; to all cases involving
Federation defense personnel; to controversies to which the
Federation shall be a party; to controversies involving two
or more Regions; between citizens of different Regions.
2. Regional Courts in General. The judicial power of the
Regional Courts shall extend to all cases in law and equity,
arising under this constitution, the laws of the Region and
treaties made or which shall be made under their authority;
to all Regional ministers and consuls; to controversies to
which a sole Regional Government shall be a party; to
controversies between two or more Nation-States within one
Region; between citizens of different Nation-States within
one Region.
3. Federation Supreme Court. In all cases affecting
Federation ambassadors, other Federation ministers and
consuls, and those in which a Region shall be a party, the
Federation Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction.
In all other cases, the Federation Supreme Court shall have
appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such
exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress of
the Federation shall make.
4. Regional Supreme Court. In all cases affecting Regional
ambassadors, other Regional ministers and consuls, and those
in which Nation-States within one Region shall be a party,
the Regional Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction.
In all other cases, the Regional Supreme Court shall have
appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such
exceptions, and under such regulations as the Regional
Congress shall make and not in violation with the law of the
Federation.
5. Rules Respecting Trials. The trial of all crimes, except
in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; the trial shall
be at such place or places as determined by the respective
Congress. No attainder shall work against subsequent
generations of criminals.
6. Treason. Treason against the Federation shall consist
only in levying war against the Federation, Regions, or
member Nation-States, or in adhering to the enemies of the
Federation, Regions, or member Nation-States. No person
shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two
witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in front
of at least two witnesses. The Senate shall have the power
to declare the punishment of treason.
Law sets the minimum standard for society; people need to set the
highest standard. Use Discipline, Respect, Humility, and
Appreciation and continue to evolve to achieve Spirituality,
Wisdom, Knowledge, Courage, and Strength, to gain the power,
healing, blessing and transformation, to Live in Truth, in
Justice, and in Righteousness.
Martin Alpert
March 20, 1995
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