Preamble: 

Realizing that humanity today has come to a turning point in its history;

Aware of the interdependence of people, nations, and all life:

Conscious that the greatest hope for the survival of life on earth is the establishment of a democratic world government;

We, citizens of the world, hereby resolve to establish a world federation to be governed in accordance with this constitution for the Federation.

Article 1. Functions of the Earth Federation

The functions of the Federation shall be: To prevent war by lawfully by resolving disputes; to protect universal human rights; and to promote equitable economic and social development.

Article 2. Basic Structure of the Earth Federation

The Earth Federation includes all nations and peoples of Earth and encompasses all territories of the planet. It is non-military and democratic, and sovereignty resides in the world’s people. Nations retain jurisdiction over their internal affairs, but in accordance with the principles of Earth Constitution.

The planet is organized into 1,000 World Electoral and Administrative Districts (of equal or similar population) for administration and electoral purposes. The Districts are grouped into 20 Regions (see below), and these into 5 Continental Divisions.

WEADs are characterized as being:

• A basic unit, the smallest component of the world government.

• An administrative body that will exercise certain world functions but does not interfere with national governments and their subdivisions.

• An electoral body that will elect one representative, per District, to the House of Peoples.

• A set of at least 1,000 Districts across the planet. By 2022, with a global population of 8,000,000,000, it was determined that each District must have a population of 8,000,000 (+/- 10%: from 7,200,000 to 8,800,000).

• The Districts are grouped into 20 Regions worldwide.

• A District can be initiated with the signatures at least three people who have affirmed the Earth Constitution.

Article 3. Organs of the Earth Federation

• • The World Parliament

• • The World Executive

• • The World Administration

• • The Integrative Complex

• • The World Judiciary

• • The Enforcement System (world prosecution and police); and

• • The World Public Defender (ombudsman)

Article 4. Grant of Specific Powers to the Earth Federation

The powers of the global government shall be exercised through its organs and agencies who will work through at least 41 areas, as detailed in this Article.

Article 5. The World Parliament

The principal functions and powers of the World Parliament shall include:

• • Preparing, approving, amending, and updating legislation in all areas.

• • Reviewing and approving budgets.

• • Creating, modifying, abolishing, or consolidating departments, offices, commissions, institutes, agencies, and other bodies.

• • Approving the appointments of heads of departments, commissions, etc.

• • Removing any member of the World Executive from office for just cause.

• • Defining the boundaries of the Districts, Regions and Continental Divisions.

• • Planning and executing the implementation of the Constitution. Composition of the World Parliament:

The Parliament is composed of three chambers:

• House of Counsellors
• House of the People
• House of Nations

This Article details the election of members of the chambers, and their requirements. The mode of functioning of each of the chambers and the coordination between them is also provided.

Article 6. The World Executive

The Executive consists of a Presidium of five members, one from each continent, who will rotate in the presidency annually. They will make all decisions by majority vote. The procedures to be followed by the Executive, as well as its limitations, are defined herein.

Article 7. The World Administration

Full description is provided of the structure and functions of the World Administration, which shall be subordinate to the Executive. Departments (ministries) shall be at least 28, including: Disarmament and War Prevention, Population, Food and Agriculture, Waterways and Water, Health and Nutrition, and Education. 

Article 8. The Integrative Complex

The Integrative Complex serves the government by handling issues common to all of its functions across the board.

The agencies that comprise the Integrative Complex are described as follows:

Civil Service: Defines standards, creates examinations, and sets salary scales for the staff of all agencies, departments, offices, commissions, and agencies.

Boundaries and Elections: Defines the boundaries of Districts, Regions, and Continental Divisions, as well as regulating the legislative initiatives of the parliament, and world parliamentary elections.

Government Procedures and World Problems: Prepares and manages information, education, and training courses for all personnel serving the government in its problem-solving function.

Research and Planning: Develops long-range plans for the development, conservation, and equitable distribution of the Earth’s resources. Describes world problems and proposes solutions. Develops and executes research and planning projects, including the world library.

Technology and Environment: Advises on the impacts and consequences of technological innovations in relation to environmental, ecological, and other effects. 

Financial Administration: Provides planetary accounting, revenue procedures, taxes, social costs, supranational resource licensing and projects, etc. Controls and supervises  disbursement of funds. Studies and reports on inefficiency, mismanagement, corruption, embezzlement, and other possible irregularities. Establishes and operates a planetary banking system, making the transition to a common global currency and establishing a monetary and credit banking system for goods and services, especially in areas of global need. Prepares budgets.

Legislative Review: Examines global legislation in order to propose any necessary amendments and updates.

Article 9. World Jurisdiction

Description is provided in this Article of the World Courts. It establishes the College of Judges, which is nominated by the House of Counsellors and elected by Parliament in joint session. A World Council of Judges is appointed by the College and is responsible for appointing judges.

The benches of the World Courts are as follows: Human rights; criminal, civil, and constitutional cases; international conflicts; appellate, and advisory. .

Article 10. Enforcement System

The enforcement system is responsible for ensuring compliance with the Earth Constitution and world law.

Individuals shall be held responsible for complying with world law regardless of whether they act on their own initiative or as official agents of governments, corporations, associations, or groups of any kind.

Means of enforcement shall be specified by legislation of the World Parliament. The Office of World Prosecutors and the World Police are also established herein.

Article 11. World Public Defender (Ombudsman)

Agency for the protection of the world citizens against violations or denials of universal human and civil rights; also promotes social well-being and justice, and serves as an independent watchdog on the world government itself. Is designated as the World Council of Public Defenders, who are nominated by the House of Counsellors.

Article 12. Bill of Rights for the Citizens of Earth

This article details these fundamental, inalienable, and binding universal rights:

• • Equal rights for all, without discrimination based on race, nationality, sex, religion, political affiliation,property, or social status.

• • Equal protection and application of global legislation for all citizens.

• • Freedom of thought and conscience, speech, press, communication, expression, publication, audiovisual broadcasting, etc., except when they constitute incitement to violence, riots, or insurrection.

• • Freedom of assembly, association, organization, petition, and peaceful demonstration.

• • Freedom to vote without coercion, and freedom for political organization without censure or recrimination.

• • Freedom to profess, practice, and promote religious or non-religious beliefs, as well as political beliefs.

• • Freedom to conduct research, surveys, and reports.

• • Freedom to travel without a passport, visa, or any form of registration that might restrict travel between or within nations.

• • Prohibition of slavery or involuntary servitude. 

• • Prohibition of military recruitment.

• • Security of the person against arbitrary arrest, exile, etc.

• • Prohibition against physical or psychological duress or torture during any period of investigation,arrest, detention, or imprisonment, and against cruel or unusual punishment.

• • Right to habeas corpus, no ex-post-facto laws; no double jeopardy; right to refuse self-incrimination or the incrimination of another.

• • Prohibition of private armed forces and paramilitary organizations.

• • Security of property against arbitrary seizure and protection of ownership without reasonable compensation.

• • Right to family planning and free public assistance for the same.

• • Right to privacy of the individual, family, or association. Prohibition of surveillance as a means of political control.

Article 13. Directive Principles for the Earth Federation

The world government is obligated to use all reasonable means to implement the following principles and rights:

Useful employment with sufficient remuneration, including the possibility of universal basic income; free choice of work or profession; full access to information and knowledge; free public education at all levels; free public health care; decent housing and adequate food; clean water and pure air; ensuring every child the right to the full realization of their potential; social security for all under all circumstances; freedom of self-determination for minorities, refugees, and dissidents; freedom to change residence, with provision of temporary and sufficient resources when mass migrations occur; prohibition of the death penalty; and other rights.

Article 14. Safeguards and Reservations

Nations have the freedom to determine their internal political, economic, and social system, which must be consistent with the values of the Constitution. Full faith and credit shall be given to the public acts, records, legislation, and procedures of the member nations. Grant of the right of asylum within the Federation for persons who may seek refuge from countries or nations which are not yet included within the Federation of Earth.

Article 15. Federal Zones and the World Capitals

Twenty Federal Zones, one for each Region, shall be designated as the regional headquarters for the agencies of the government. There shall be five World Capitals, one in each Continental Division, and of these, one shall be primary and rotating.

Article 16. World Territories and Foreign Relations

The World Territories are established as the heritage of all humanity. They encompass the international oceans and seas, the atmosphere, and other areas of the Earth free from the jurisdiction of any nation, and include the moon and artificial satellites, as well as straits, canals, and vital waterways.

The government shall also manage foreign relations with nations or populations which are not part of the Earth Federation.

All exploration of outer space shall be managed by the world government, inclusive of relations with other inhabited planets.

Article 17. Ratification and Implementation

The Constitution shall be submitted to the nations and peoples of Earth for ratification.

The Constitution shall also be submitted to the General Assembly of the United Nations and to each of the governments of Earth for preliminary ratification and for final ratification by popular referendums of the peoples of each nation.

Universities, institutes, and scientific academies of any country may ratify the Constitution, thereby qualifying for appointment by the world parliament to the House of Counsellors.

There are three stages of the actualization of the World Government, in addition to the current provisional phase: the First Operational Stage, the Second Operational Stage, and the Fully Operational Stage of World Government.

The First Operational Stage is achieved when the Constitution is ratified by any one of these methods:

• (1) A minimum of 25 nations ratifying; (2) a minimum of 10 nations along with 50 Districts; (3) 100 Districts, even if no nation has ratified it.

Nations that ratify this Constitution, and thereby join the Earth Federation, will transfer all their weapons of mass destruction to the World Disarmament Agency, which will immediately immobilize them and either recycle their materials or destroy them. During the first operational stage, ratifyingnations may still maintain armed forces equipped with weapons other than weapons of mass destruction, as defined and designated by the World Disarmament Agency.

In parallel with the elimination of weapons of mass destruction and other related military expenditures, the member countries of the Earth Federation will annually pay into the Treasury amounts equal to half of the amounts saved from their respective national military budgets during the last year prior to joining the Federation and will continue such payments until the Fully Operational Stage of World Government is reached.

The World Government will use fifty percent of the funds thus received to finance the work and projects of the World Economic Development Organization.

The Second Operational Stage of World Government will be implemented when fifty percent or more of the nations of Earth have ratified the World Constitution, provided that fifty percent of the totalpopulation of Earth is included in this tally; the people of these nations may ratify by direct referendum.

Nations joining the Earth Federation to form the Second Operational Stage of World Government must have transferred all weapons of mass destruction and all other weapons and military equipment to the World Disarmament Agency.

During this Second Operational Stage, all armed and paramilitary forces of the nations that have joined theEarth Federation will be completely disarmed and disbanded, or converted into voluntary elements of the non-military World Service Corps.

Once the Executive Cabinet for the Second Operational Stage has been formed, the Presidium will issue an invitation to the General Assembly of the United Nations and each of its specialized agencies, as well as other relevant international organizations, to transfer personnel, facilities, equipment, and resources in allegiance to the Earth Federation for reconstitution and integration into the various organs, departments, offices, and agencies of the World Government.

The Full Operational Stage of World Government will be implemented when the Constitution is ratified by eighty percent, or more, of the nations of Earth, comprising at least ninety percent of the world’s population.

All nations that have not yet done so shall immediately transfer all weapons and military equipment to the World Disarmament Agency, which shall immobilize them and proceed without delay to dismantle them, convert them for peaceful uses, recycle their materials, or destroy them.

All armies and military forces of every kind shall be completely disarmed and disbanded, or converted and integrated on a volunteer basis into the non- military World Service Corps.

As in the preceding stage, all agencies of the United Nations Organization and other viable internationalagencies of national governments, together with their personnel, facilities, and resources, shall be transferred to the World Government and reconstituted and integrated, as useful, into the organs, departments, bureaus, institutes, commissions, offices, and agencies of the World Government.

1.  Article 18. Amendments

Procedures are provided for amending the World Constitution. Amendments may originate in Parliament, or from the population through signatures. A Constitutional Convention shall be convened at least every twenty years to revise the Earth Constitution.

Article 19. Provisional World Government

This article defines the composition of the Provisional World Parliament and how its Executive is formed. It also specifies the priority actions to be carried out by the Provisional World Government. In the current provisional phase, the formation of Districts is undertaken, and efforts to convince the nations to ratify must be promoted. Also to be established in this phase are Commissions concerning: Ratification, Elections, World Development, World Problems, Nominations, Finance, Quest for Peace and Education, and others that have been deemed necessary, such as the Legislative Review Commission.