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Re: Introduction of Fernando IGLESIAS
Doug EVERINGHAM
Tuesday, 13 May 2003 00:21:51 +0200
Fernando IGLESIAS fernandoi@ciudad.com.ar wrote on 9 Apr 2003 ...* ... responsible in Argentina for the *World Democracy Campaign* of the World Citizen Foundation ... ... I'm preparing *Globalizar la Democracia - Democratizar la Globalización* ... and * Ten global laws on Globalization- a new Copernican revolution*...). ...
I welcome this excellent plan and hope that Fernando and others in our World Democracy campaign will bring together a growing list of world democracy supporters. Such listing is fragmented -- uncoordinated among
* the world citizen registries of Troy Davis' World Citizen Foundation, http://www.worldcitizen.org, troy_davis@yahoo.com; * Garry Davis' World Government of World Citizens, worldlaw@globalnetisp.net; * adopters of the International Simultaneous Policy Organization http://www.simpol.org, and * others, including consenting members of other organizations.
Among policy planks these groups might consider for simultaneous multilateral/ national legislation and constitutional reform might be a national pledge -- like those in constitutions of four countries after they had been devastated in World War 2. Their new constitutions provide thus (in chronological order):
France's 1946 constitution consented irrevocably to "limitations of its national sovereignty, necessary for the organisation and defence of the Peace ... under conditions of reciprocity".
Japan on 3 May 1947 followed suit, reaffirming the Kellogg-Briand Pact ("Eternal Pact" of Paris). It specified, in interpretation of the Tokyo War Crimes Judgment, the renunciation of war (article 9) as a sovereign right of the nation, uttering the Kamikaze-verdict: "The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognised".
Italy on 1 January 1948 Italy renounced "war ... as a means for settling international disputes" and in Article 11 consented, under conditions of reciprocity. i.e. "in accordance (parità) with other states, to those limitations of its national sovereignty, necessary for an organisation, ensuring justice and peace among nations".
West Germany's (Federal Republic) Constitution dated 23 May 1949, Article 24 states 1.The Federation can, by (adopting a) law (with simple majority in parliament) transfer sovereign rights to international institutions. 2. For the maintenance of Peace, the Federation may accede to a system of mutual, collective security; it will thereby consent to the necessary limitations of its national sovereignty, to bring about and secure a peaceful and lasting order in Europe, and between the Peoples of the world. 3. For the settlement of international disputes the Federation will accede to agreements concerning general, comprehensive, obligatory international arbitration.
The European Union includes 3 of those 4 globally-minded countries. Perhaps its recent gains in competition with the US and Japan may help persuade people that transparent, accountable federal rule in matters outside control of single countries is kinder and less prone to bureaucratic insensitivity than secretive, seductive, Wall-Street- dominated big business like Enron. -- Doug Everingham
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