A World Supreme Council
A Mechanism for the
Reconstruction of
the International Order

Statement of Principles for a World Supreme Council

Prologue:

This proposal and 'Statement of Principles for a World Supreme Council' is addressed to the leaders of the world for when they gather together in a world convocation after nuclear World War Three to form a world government - a New World Order - that will assure Unity, Justice, Peace and Prosperity for the whole of humankind.

After World War One the world formed the League of Nations and after World Two it formed the United Nations - both with the idea of assuring peace while maintaining the 'sovereignty' of nations. Obviously that idea did not work. Unless the world wishes to try for World War Four, and the same result, now is the time to do something different because it is considered a scientific truism that repeating the same actions will have the same results as previously.

What is proposed here is a World Supreme Council. Not a Council of nations, not a league of nations, not a union or uniting of nations, because the nation concept as regards the sovereignty of nations is the very element that assures failure for any prospects of establishing and maintaining peace. In this proposal National identities may continue and do their own thing - so long as they do not interfere with the mechanism described here.

The form of New World Order, proposed here, can bring about Unity, Justice, Peace and Prosperity to the whole of the remnant of humankind - and their descendants. All that is needed is the selection of leaders who see themselves as citizens of the world and who put forth the needs and concerns of the whole of humanity over that of some particular national, religious, racial, or class identity. The whole of humanity must then be educated in this global concept.

The first and foremost need of the planet is for all its inhabitants to become unified. Unification does not mean homogenization. There can still remain all the variety of religions, cultures and races, and even greater variety may develop, but all the flowers of the garden must be allowed to grow in peace.

There must be continuous progress towards each and every individual of the planet identifying themselves as being a citizen of the entire planet and, most importantly, recognizing ALL the other inhabitants as citizens of the planet also, and having all the same rights as themselves.

The world leaders must not only be leaders in the sense that they have authority, but more importantly they must be leaders in thought - in being foremost to recognize and teach the unity of all the citizens of the planet in their concern that all the citizens of the planet come to desire unity and justice for all the world's citizens.

Let then, those who gather together to rescue and reconstruct civilization be of global and humanitarian mind, as has just been described, and let them consider the following manner of accomplishing this desired goal.

No ratification by the nations or peoples of the world is needed because all the nations of the world have already unanimously ratified the World Charter of Rights and Freedoms which this mechanism implements and because this mechanism provides for the first time the means by which every individual on the planet will be equally provided with the means of modifying it.

A. Establishment of
the World Supreme Council

A1. By general consensus -
of the world convocation -
and based roughly upon population
let the map of the world
be divided into nine geographic areas -
to be called World Regions.
The boundaries of the nine geographic areas -
need not be a matter of great debate
because a simple and just manner
for their later redefinition is a part
of this proposal.

A2. In each of the initially selected / defined
nine World Regions
let the assembled world leaders / representatives
from the countries / areas in each of those regions
elect a total of nine
Regional Administrators
to a Regional Council
for the World Region in which they reside,
with no more than one administrator being elected from any one country or area.

A3. The nine elected
Regional Administrators
of each Regional Council
must then elect from amongst themselves -
one individual -
to serve on the World Supreme Council
as the designate from their World Region Council.

A4. The elected nine members
of the first World Supreme Council
should draw numbers
to determine their initial sitting order
from one to nine.
The order will thereafter continuously change
in a fair, set and orderly manner
through term expiration and other circumstances.

B. Establishment of Sub-Councils

B1. The two matching and mirrored
uniform principles of top down implementation
and bottom up selection and election are:

B2. Should higher in-line Councils differ
regarding any Council's boundaries
or any other decision
then the decision that is binding is that
of the highest in-line Council making a decision.

B3. Until there are root community groups established
having less than 200 and more than 50 individuals over the age of 15,
the described method of Council establishment
should be repeated downward reiteratively
with each Council determining
the boundaries of nine immediately lower-level Councils
within its boundaries -
and the lower Councils each then electing their designate -
to the next higher Council.

B4. The determination of boundaries
for each Council
should always be done using
geographic continuity of boundaries and
approximate equality in size of population
as the guideline.

C. Council Election Process

C1. Unless denied by a higher in-line Council -
all lower Councils have the right
at any time and for any reason
to recall and replace their designate
in the next higher Council.

C2. Any new designate selected must be
one of the currently serving members
of the electing Council.

C3. Each elected designate
to a Higher Council
fills only a vacancy left
by the previously elected person
from the electing Council -
or in case of initial Council's appointed from the top down -
the person representing the geographic area
of the new electing Council.

C4. The most recently elected designate
to a Council becomes member number nine
on that Council -
and all other members presently on the Council
move up in order through
any vacant numbers.

C5. On April 21st of each year -
(or some other determined annual date)
the Number One Member of the Council
retires from each Council -
(no matter how short a period they have served)
and a new member from the area that elected them -
is then elected to the number nine position
on the Council -
all other members moving up a chair and number
in order.

D. Council Election Principles

D1. All persons within a grassroots community
who are age 15 or older
are eligible to vote and to be voted for,
within such limits of balance as considered
in items number D15 and D16 below.
Any questions of eligibility
are to be resolved by the Council
or higher in-line Councils.

D2. Balloting is always by secret ballot -
with all the ballots being openly displayed
during counting.
Reasonable processes to assure anonymity should always be used.

D3. Elections and decisions are always by majority vote.

D4. If a majority does not elect or decide on a ballot -
the votes are announced within the group -
and reballoting takes place -
until a majority elects the designate
or reaches a decision.

D5. Only the nine members of any Council can vote
for a designate to the next higher Council.

D6. Only present members of the Council
can be voted for
as the designate to the next higher Council.

D7. No one can be elected to the same higher Council twice
without passing through the steps
of having been elected again by each lower council
from a grassroots community upwards.

D8. Higher Council members can move about
and live anywhere within their Council's boundaries.

D8. Recall can only be made by the next lower Council that elected the designate.

D9. If a designate is recalled - the recall must be approved
by the Council on which the designate is serving
and by Higher Councils should they wish to intervene.

D10. If recalled -
the designate will be recognized as a respected past Councillor of the level from which they are recalled and will be appointed as an Advisor-at-Large
for the level to which they are returning
with the rights and privileges of a retiring Councillor at that level.

D11. No one will serve any longer
than nine years at any one Council level
because by then they will become number one and retire.

D12. Those retiring from the number one position of any Council
will be recognised as a respected past Councillor and as an Advisor-at-Large
to the level of Council from which they are retiring -
but will not have any vote or authority
(except authority as designated by a Council)
and may not sit at Council
except by unanimous permission of
all members of the sitting Council.

D13. The Nine Sitting Councillors will sit in order of their number -
changing chairs as their number changes.

Dl4. Replacement of a Councillor is always by
a Councillor from the same lower Council
as the one from which the Councillor being replaced was elected.

D15. Should less than 1/3 of a Council be of either sex
then the Council filling the next vacancy on the Council
must provide, if available, a person of that lesser numbered sex.

D16. A Council may determine,
with the explicit or implicit concurrence
of higher Councils.
that the same principle, as applied in item 15,
should apply to certain other minority categories
to assure a sense of justice within a community.

D17. In this system, every individual has equal value in their vote and there is no emotional campaigning, no allegiances or alliances created by campaign funding, and no time or effort wasted in seeking campaign funds or support to remain in Council.

D18. In this system, terms expire automatically without possibility of renewal and Council members have not this reason to be subject to bribes or pressure and should therefore vote only their consciences.

D19. Councilors have no authority individually, but only in their collective vote, except for such temporary responsibilities designated to them, from time to time, by a Council.

E. Principles of the Council Legislative System

E1. The Councils embody the Legislative, Judicial, and Administrative authority of their level. This system eliminates any conflicts of balance of power between various functions because all functions are embodied in the Councils and each Council has supreme authority over the Councils below it.

E2. The Councils at each level are elected from and by the members of the Council below them assuring all the way to the grass roots that the Councils reflect the best of the qualities and attitudes of the Councils below them and providing a truly universal democratic process of representation. Those voting for Council designates should strive to develop a growing maturity in selecting people of the highest spiritual and social qualifications.

E3. The actions, regulations, and decisions of any Council may be reviewed and modified by any of the Higher Councils in their line ascending to the World Supreme Council but a higher Council cannot reject or refuse to seat a lower Council's designate.

E4. Review and modification of the actions, regulations, and decisions of any lower in-line Council is not dependent upon an appeal to the higher in-line Council and any higher in-line Council may initiate any action that they wish, subject only to the implicit or explicit instructions of a still higher-in-line Council.

E5. Regulation and administration should be done on the basis of Stated Principles rather than by statute, by-laws, or other such legal mechanisms.

E6. Each level of Council should reform or restate ALL of its Principles and goals at least every five years.

E7. Each Council is responsible for holding monthly assemblies of the 81 members of their electing Councils in which they will explain the Council's principles, goals, decisions, and recommendations and in which they will listen to the recommendations of the electing Councils.

E8. All Councils will consider the recommendations of their electing Councils but they are not bound to abide by or conform in any way with the recommendations.

E9. All Councils are bound to abide by the directions of all Higher in-line Councils. Should a Council feel there is a conflict in the directions of intermediate Councils then the direction of the highest Council giving direction will take precedence.

F. Principles of the Council Judicial System

F1. The Judicial System is to be one of restorative justice rather than administrative justice.

F2. Restorative Justice works on the basis of consultation to find a healing process for all parties although this may include a punishment or corrective process for offenders.

F3. Restorative Justice works upon the basis of Principles rather than legislative acts, rules, regulations, laws or by-laws because laws and legalism often work against Principles and Justice.

F4. Restorative Justice dispenses with
the court formality of the old world order
and their ceremonial trappings
accompanied by laws, by-laws, regulations and rules
administered by professional prosecutors, defenders, judges,
along with the machinery of argument,
citations, opinions, and precedence.
Here, all that is replaced by the duly elected administrators
or their appointees
who can reach binding and enforceable decisions
on the basis of Principles and consultation.

F5. Justice that must be determined by justice professionals is not justice but legalism. Justice can be determined through consultation among decent, intellectual, just, spiritually minded individuals who at each higher level have been selected by their peers at the previous level as having best reflected those characteristics. They can call upon scientific and technical experts for fact and opinion where necessary.

F6. Each level of Council is responsible for the protection of the Freedoms and Rights of all people in its area - all being subject to any required review and modification of the highest in-line Council that wishes to intervene.

F7. Each level of Council is responsible for the teaching of all people in its area regarding the World Charter of Rights and Freedoms along with the responsibility of each individual regarding those rights and freedoms - all being subject to any required review and modification of the highest in-line Council that wishes to intervene.

F8. Any Council or any individual may appeal to any in-line Council. It is at the Council's discretion whether or not they will hear an appeal unless the appealed Council is ordered to do so, or to not do so, by a still higher in-line Council.

G. Principles of the Council Administrative System

G1. Each level of Council is responsible for Property and Credit Entitlement within its area in accordance with any policies and procedures of higher in-line Councils.

G2. Each level of Council is responsible for a monetary system at its level limited only by any policies and procedures of higher in-line Councils.

G3. Each level of Council is responsible for full employment in its area limited only by any policies and procedures of higher in-line Councils.

G4. Each level of Council is responsible for the economic well-being of all people in its area - limited only by any policies and procedures of higher in-line Councils.

G5. Each council may administer and execute its policies directly or through Commissions of it's appointing.

G6. All members of all Commissions serve at the pleasure of the Councils that appoint them and can be replaced or discharged at any time by the appointing Council or a higher in-line Council.

G7. All policies and decisions of any Commission are made at the pleasure of the appointing Council and may be changed at any time by the appointing Council or by a higher in-line Council.

G8. Commissions having been mandated by Councils to act upon the Council's behalf - the Commission's policies, actions, and decisions are therefore the same as if they were initiated, instituted or implemented by the Council itself.

G9. If so directed by the Council, a Commission may also perform the judiciary function of the Council. The Commissions may thus be perceived as thematic courts dealing with the arbitration, resolution or judgement of matters related to the Commission's particular theme. Conflicts between rulings of different Commissions should be resolved by the Council at the appropriate level as well as should be any appeals.

G10. World Supreme Council Resolutions are binding
on all peoples of the world -
and those who are not submissive -
are simply characterized as non-compliant.

Non-compliance with Council and Commission decisions at any level may initially be the most difficult problem facing the Councils. This problem should diminish as the Councils' prestige becomes recognized and their authority recognized, but in the interim it will take the utmost skill and wisdom to achieve compliance with their judgement and decisions. They will have several tools at their service.

G11. In the initial stages, those entities in a Council's area that seek to opt out of participation in the Council and recognition of its authority will have to be dealt with to the degree feasible - but eventually there must be attained universal compliance.

H. Example Commissions
for the World Supreme Council
and for lower level Councils

Any Council may decide, unless directed differently by a higher in-line Council, to implement or not implement Commissions similar to the following or for that matter still other Commissions of a completely different nature or purpose.

A. Authority Commission -

B. Border Commission -

C. Credentials Commission - D. Disarmament Commission -

E. Education Commission -

F. Forces Commission -

G. Goals Commission -

H. Home Commission -

I. Industry Development Commission -

J. Justice Commission -

K. Killing Commission -

L. Language Commission -

M. Monetary Commission -

N. NGO - Non Governmental Organization Oversight Commission -

O. Operating Commission -

P. Peace Commission -

Q. Quarantine Commission -

R. Revenue Commission -

S. Statistical Commission -

T. Telecosm and Transportation Commission -

U. Universal Rights Commission -

V. Violence Commission -

W. Welfare Commission -

X. eXploration minerals Commission -

Y. Youth Commission -

Z. Zone Force Commission -

Postlogue:

The alphabetic list of example Commissions is nothing more than that - an example of the types of Commissions and activities that Councils must concern themselves with. At various levels some of the examples may be thought entirely unnecessary while there are many dozens, even hundreds or thousands of others that may be desired in some particular circumstances. Circumstances and needs are always changing.

Many people would like to return to the past. The past did not work because it was defective. It was not just partially defective such that making a few adjustments in the old system would correct it - no, it was totally defective.

The old system needs to be replaced by something quite different. Any supposedly 'balance of power', political party, power politic systems will have the same inherent problems of contention, strife, and the powerful eventually winning at the disadvantage of the less powerful economically, politically, avariciously. We should not want such adversarial systems.

What is proposed here is that the new system should be based upon ever improving Principles, that are being continuously examined and modified as the needs may be. The basic principles seen here are that:

While there may seem to be a tension between some of the ideals expressed above, and some of them may even seem to be in conflict with each other, the progress towards unity and justice for the whole of humanity will remain forever the goal that will require the continuing striving of all of humanity and the continuous readjustment of the instruments used for that purpose.

The Principles presented here are not a final ideal but rather a mechanism for beginning what must be a continuing journey in the progress of humanity towards universal unity, justice, peace and prosperity in accordance with the wishes of its Creator.

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Bruce Beach
March 12th, 2006