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RESOLUTIONS Memorializing the President and Congress of the United States to call for a conference to review the Charter of the United Nations, and to propose or support amendments which will ensure its transformation into a United Federation of Nations, with powers which, while defined and limited to international affairs, shall be adequate to ensure global tranquility by preserving peace and preventing aggression through the enactment, interpretation and enforcement of world law.
Whereas, the United Nations has failed to save the people of the earth from the scourge of war because of its structural inability to enact and enforce international law; and
Whereas, a revised United Nations Charter must be framed to be of, for and by the PEOPLE; to establish genuine international law and order; to effectively render war, as a means of settling international disputes, illegal and obsolete; and
Whereas, an effective and revised charter must include these essentials of democratic federal government:
A representative and democratic global legislature with authority to enact international law;
An executive, responsible to the legislature, with the authority to enforce international law;
A court system to interpret international law, a system with compulsory jurisdiction to adjudicate disputes between nation-states and individual world citizens;
A Bill of Rights to guarantee the basic rights and civil liberties essential to a democratic republic form of government; now therefore be it
Resolved, that the Massachusetts Senate calls upon the President and Congress of the United States to call for a conference to review the Charter of the United Nations, and to propose or support amendments which will ensure its transformation into a United Federation of Nations, with powers which, while defined and limited to international affairs, shall be adequate to ensure global tranquility by preserving peace and preventing aggression through the enactment, interpretation and enforcement of world law; and be it further
Resolved, that copies of these resolutions be transmitted forthwith by the clerk of the Massachusetts Senate to the President of the United States, to the presiding officer of each branch of Congress and the members thereof from this Commonwealth.
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RESOLUTIONS Memorializing the President and Congress of the United States to call for a conference to review the Charter of the United Nations, and to propose or support amendments which will ensure its transformation into a United Federation of Nations, with powers which, while defined and limited to international affairs, shall be adequate to ensure global tranquility by preserving peace and preventing aggression through the enactment, interpretation and enforcement of world law.
Whereas, the United Nations has failed to save the people of the earth from the scourge of war because of its structural inability to enact and enforce international law; and
Whereas, a revised United Nations Charter must be framed to be of, for and by the PEOPLE; to establish genuine international law and order; to effectively render war, as a means of settling international disputes, illegal and obsolete; and
Whereas, an effective and revised charter must include these essentials of democratic federal government:
A representative and democratic global legislature with authority to enact international law;
An executive, responsible to the legislature, with the authority to enforce international law;
A court system to interpret international law, a system with compulsory jurisdiction to adjudicate disputes between nation-states and individual world citizens;
A Bill of Rights to guarantee the basic rights and civil liberties essential to a democratic republic form of government; now therefore be it
Resolved, that the Massachusetts Senate calls upon the President and Congress of the United States to call for a conference to review the Charter of the United Nations, and to propose or support amendments which will ensure its transformation into a United Federation of Nations, with powers which, while defined and limited to international affairs, shall be adequate to ensure global tranquility by preserving peace and preventing aggression through the enactment, interpretation and enforcement of world law; and be it further
Resolved, that copies of these resolutions be transmitted forthwith by the clerk of the Massachusetts Senate to the President of the United States, to the presiding officer of each branch of Congress and the members thereof from this Commonwealth.