"...All the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood."
-Dr. Martin Luther King
"When those who do the fighting have the right to choose between war and peace, history will no longer be written in blood."
-Emmanuel Kant
All members of the human race shall be afforded the legal right and protection of world citizenship.
We call for the immediate convening of a world constitutional convention to elaborate a constitution for the World Government. We call for the "mundialization" of all United States villages, towns, cities and states, and we urge governors and mayors throughout the world to declare their municipalities, counties and states integral and dynamic parts of the total world community.
By a constitutional amendment, we seek the registration of all United States citizens as World Citizens in conformity with the Ninth and Tenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution that reserve sovereign rights to the people; we also call upon all national citizens to so register through the World Service Authority.
We recommend the registration of all U.S. newborns with the World Government in accordance with the accepted legal principles of jus soli and jus sanguinis and for the purpose of providing our children with World Birth Certificates via the World Service Authority. This will formally establish human-and, therefore, world-legitimacy at birth, where it belongs.
We condemn the arms race as illegal, along with all national programs aimed at placing weapons in space, such as the so-called Strategic Defense Initiative.
We ask all heads of state to declare a world truce so that humans conscripted as national soldiers will cease killing fellow humans; it is our view that such killing must be designated as criminal under revised Nuremberg Principles.
We urge the establishment of a World Peace Corps as an alternative to national military service in conformity with Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "All humans beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights; they are endowed with reason and conscience and should act toward one another in a spirit of brotherhood."
We call upon retired military personnel, particularly generals and admirals, to form a unit to be called the Sovereign Order of World Guards to supervise this World Peace Corps.
We ask that all religious leaders unite under the banner of one world, God's creation. For believers in religion to kill others of a different religion is to blaspheme the Creator of the Universe. Religious leaders must condemn such practice.
We call upon the women of the world, especially mothers, from whom humanity comes, to support the World Government to the fullest of their immense and sovereign power.
We urge the establishment of a world bank, one of whose missions would be to issue a stable world monetary unit that will gradually replace the volatile national currencies.
We support the revision of the U.S. budget for the purpose of de-emphasizing armaments and emphasizing the fulfillment of civic needs and the provision of social services.
We call for further implementation of strategies for democratizing the tools of production through stock ownership plans involving employees, consumers and the general public.
We urge settlement of Third World debts through creation of a World Park as a life-support system for the tropical rainforests, a common heritage of humanity. Deeding of land for such a park will offset the paper value of monetary debts incurred by developing countries.
We call upon the myriad peace movements from every clime and of every inclination to unite under the all-encompassing banner of our common world citizenship.
* Garry Davis' 1988 Platform