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A
CONSTITUTION FOR THE FEDERATION OF EARTH
Article
4 - Grant of Specific Powers to the World Government
The powers
of the World government to be exercised through its several
organs and agencies shall comprise the following:
- Prevent
wars and armed conflicts among the nations, regions, districts,
parts and peoples of Earth.
- Supervise
disarmament and prevent re-armament; prohibit and eliminate
the design, testing, manufacture, sale, purchase, use and
possession of weapons of mass destruction, and prohibit
or regulate all lethal weapons which the World Parliament
may decid e.
- Prohibit
incitement to war, and discrimination against or defamation
of conscientious objectors.
- Provide
the means for peaceful and just solutions of disputes and
conflicts among or between nations, peoples, and/or other
components within the Federation of Earth.
- Supervise
boundary settlements and conduct plebiscites as needed.
- Define
the boundaries for the districts, regions and divisions
which are established for electoral, administrative, judicial
and other purposes of the World Government.
- Define
and regulate procedures for the nomination and election
of the members of each House of the World Parliament, and
for the nomination, election, appointment and employment
of all World Government officials and personnel.
- Codify
world laws, including the body of international law developed
prior to adoption of the world constitution, but not inconsistent
therewith, and which is approved by the World Parliament.
- Establish
universal standars for weights, measurements, accounting
and records.
- Provide
assistance in the event of large scale calamities, including
drouth, famine, pestilence, flood, earthquake, hurricane,
ecological disruptions and other disasters.
- Guarantee
and enforce the civil liberties and the basic human rights
which are defined in the Bill of Rights for the Citizens
of Earth which is made a part of this World Constitution
under Article 12.
- Define
standards and promote the worldwide improvement in working
conditions, nutrition, health, housing, human settlements,
environmental conditions, education, economic security,
and other conditions defined under Article 13 of this World
Constituti on.
- Regulate
and supervise international transportation, communications,
postal services, and migrations of people.
- Regulate
and supervise supra-national trade, industry, corporations,
businesses, cartels, professional services, labor supply,
finances, investments and insurance.
- Secure
and supervise the elimination of tariffs and other trade
barriers among nations, but with provisions to prevent or
minimize hardship for those previously protected by tariffs.
- Raise
the revenues and funds, by direct and/or indirect means,
which are necessary for the purposes and activities of the
World Government.
- Establish
and operate world financial, banking, credit and insurance
institutions designed to serve human needs; establish, issue
and regulate world currency, credit and exchange.
- Plan
for and regulate the development, use, conservation and
re-cycling of the natural resources of Earth as the common
heritage of Humanity; protect the environment in every way
for the benefit of both present and future generations.
- Create
and operate a World Economic Development Organization to
serve equitably the needs of all nations and people included
within the World Federation.
- Develop
and implement solutions to transnational problems of food
supply, agricultural production, soil fertility, soil conservation,
pest control, diet, nutrition, drugs and poisons, and the
disposal of toxic wastes.
- Develop
and implement means to control population growth in relation
to the life-support capacities of Earth, and solve problems
of population distribution.
- Develop,
protect, regulate and conserve the water supplies of Earth;
develop, operate and/or coordinate transnational irrigation
and other water supply and control projects; assure equitable
allocation of trans- national water supplies, and protect
ag ainst adverse trans-national effects of water or moisture
diversion or weather control projects within national boundaries.
- Own,
administer and supervise the development and conservation
of the oceans and sea-beds of Earth and all resources thereof,
and protect from damage.
- Protect
from damage, and control and supervise the uses of the atmosphere
of Earth.
- Conduct
inter-planetary and cosmic explorations and research; have
exclusive jurisdiction over the Moon and over all satellites
launched from Earth.
- Establish,
operate and/or coordinate global air lines, ocean transport
systems, international railways and highways, global communication
systems, and means for interplanetary travel and communications;
control and administer vital waterways.
- Develop,
operate and/or coordinate transnational power systems, or
networks of small units, integrating into the systems or
networks power derived from the sun, wind, water, tides,
heat differentials, magnetic forces, and any other source
of safe, eco logically sound and continuing energy supply.
- Control
the mining, production, transportation and use of fossil
sources of energy to the extent necessary to reduce and
prevent damages to the environment and the ecology, as well
as to prevent conflicts and conserve supplies for sustained
use by suc ceeding generations.
- Exercise
exclusive jurisdiction and control over nuclear energy research
and testing and nuclear power production, including the
right to prohibit any form of testing or production considered
hazardous.
- Place
under world controls essential natural resources which may
be limited or unevenly distributed about the Earth. Find
and implement ways to reduce wastes and find ways to minimize
disparities when development or production is insufficient
to suppl y everybody with all that may be needed.
- Provide
for the examination and assessment of technological innovations
which are or may be of supranational consequence, to determine
possible hazards or perils to humanity or the environment;
institute such controls and regulations of technology as
may be found necessary to prevent or correct widespread
hazards or perils to human health and welfare.
- Carry
out intensive programs to develop safe alternatives to any
technology or technological processes which may be hazardous
to the environment, the ecological system, or human health
and welfare.
- Resolve
supra-national problems caused by gross disparities in technological
development or capability, capital formation, availability
of natural resources, educational opportunity, economic
opportunity, and wage and price differentials. Assist the
processes of technology transfer under conditions which
safeguard human welfare and the environment and contribute
to minimizing disparities.
- Intervene
under procedures to be defined by the World Parliament in
cases of either intra-state violence and intra-state problems
which seriously affect world peace or universal human rights.
- Develop
a world university system. Obtain the correction of prejudicial
communicative materials which cause misunderstandings or
conflicts due to differences of race, religion, sex, national
origin or affiliation.
- Organize,
coordinate and/or administer a voluntary, non-military World
Service Corps, to carry out a wide variety of projects designed
to serve human welfare.
- Designate
as may be found desirable an official world language or
official world languages.
- Establish
and operate a system of world parks, wild life preserves,
natural places, and wilderness areas.
- Define
and establish procedures for initiative and referendum by
the Citizens of Earth on matters of supra-national legislation
not prohibited by this World Constitution.
- Establish
such departments, bureaus, commissions, institutes, corporations,
administrations, or agencies as may by needed to carry out
any and all of the functions and powers of the World Government.
- Serve
the needs of humanity in any and all ways which are now,
or may prove in the future to be, beyond the capacity of
national and local governments.
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