PURPOSES AND PRINCIPLES

Article 1 – Purposes

The Purposes of the United Federation of the World shall be:

• to create a World State with a federal, supranational level that is strong enough to abolish war and enforce universal disarmament;

• to implement the seven federal goals that will:

1. bring peace between nation-states, and disarmament;

2. share natural resources and energy;

3. solve environmental problems such as global warming;

4. end disease;

5. end famine;

6. solve the world's financial crisis; and

7. redistribute wealth to eliminate poverty;

• to devise worldwide solutions to the problems of refugees and migrants, starvation and poverty, all of which are consequences of destructive war; and

• to guarantee the fundamental and equal human rights and freedoms of all peoples and to work for the common good and welfare of all humankind.

Article 2 – Principles

The United Federation of the World, in pursuance of the Purposes stated in Article 1, and acting in accordance with the following Principles, shall:

• recognise the sovereign equality of all its Member States, each of which shall be internally independent but externally subject to the seven federal goals while remaining free in all other external relations;

• establish a bicameral legislature – with a lower house at the inter-national level between nation-states and an upper house at the supranational, federal level – that in conjunction with the executive World Commission will enact the seven federal goals among all member nation-states;

• implement universal peace, enforce disarmament and organise the dismantling of all nuclear weapons, and from the resulting savings in expenditure on wars and weapons enhance all Member States' prosperity and their implementation of the seven federal goals;

• strengthen the fundamental and equal human rights and freedoms and initiatives for universal welfare and the common good in all its Member States and enforce them through its judiciary;

• follow the vision of unity of Universalism, which relates all humankind's universal activities in all disciplines to the hidden order and underlying unity of the universe at both secular and metaphysical levels; acknowledges all religious traditions, which are followed by some 5.8 billion of the world's peoples, and the mysterious Light which is common to all and is the essence of religious Universalism; and grasps that all peoples and individuals belong to a united humankind and are entitled to the fundamental human rights of freedom, equality, enlightenment, democracy and justice, and that the best expression of such a vision of political Universalism is a World State; and

• support all peoples' drive to self-improvement, self-betterment, self-transcendence, self-transformation and higher consciousness, through which all can attain personal inner calm, serenity and a sense that life has a meaning and purpose; and their desire to live in harmony with the universe, which universal peace and the resulting harmony of all world peoples will assist.

MEMBERSHIP

Article 3 – UN Member States

The Member States of the United Federation of the World shall be all the nation-states that are members of the United Nations at the time when the United Federation of the World is brought into existence by the ratification of this Constitution in accordance with Articles 140–145 and particularly Article 143.

Article 4 – Non-UN Member States

Membership of the United Federation of the World shall also include other nation-states formally regarded as non-UN-members, dependent territories outside the UN, disputed territories and island groups with low populations (listed in Appendix 2).

Article 5 – Suspension of a Member State

A Member State of the United Federation of the World against which preventive or enforcement action has been taken by the World Executive Council may be suspended from exercising the rights and privileges of membership by the World Parliamentary Assembly upon the recommendation of the World Executive Council.

Article 6 – Expulsion of a Member State

A Member State of the United Federation of the World which has persistently violated the Principles set out in Article 2 may be temporarily expelled from, and subsequently readmitted to, the Federation (during which time it will suffer more drastic punitive sanctions including deprival of benefits) by the World Parliamentary Assembly upon the recommendation of the World Executive Council.

STRUCTURE

Article 7 – Rights of world citizens are worldwide and all-embracing

The rights of world citizens apply throughout the world and are more all-embracing than the rights of citizens of nation-states as world citizens assume responsibility for the whole global society in the territories of all nation-states rather than just the territory of a particular nation-state.

Article 8 – Right to live under political Universalism which expresses the fundamental interconnectedness of humankind

All shall have the right to live under political Universalism which expresses the fundamental interconnectedness and new-found unity of humankind. Seen from space the earth seems to be a unified planet and it seems apparent that humankind is descended from a single cell and is fundamentally interconnected, although DNA shows that each individual is also unique. The worldwide web allows...