EARTH FEDERATION MODEL
The Earth Constitution Institute envisions a democratic world federal government for all the nations and people of Earth.
The Earth Constitution’s guiding principles include: the separation of powers, a parliamentary democracy, the rule of enforceable global law, and a guarantee of universal human rights and freedoms.
Our model was carefully developed and refined over a period of decades by experts in political science, constitutional law, international relations, administrative and judicial theories, and other relevant fields.
THE THREE HOUSES OF THE World Parliament
This global legislative body is comprised of three Houses:
- House of Peoples — consisting of a single delegate from each of 1,000 electoral districts, each district containing a population of about eight million.
- House of Nations — one, two, or three delegates from each of the world’s nation-states (based on population) and designed to preserve the identity and integrity of each nation in the global community of nations.
- House of Counselors — 200 scholars, and experts, visionaries, and thought-leaders elected from around the world, each one representing humanity as a whole.
World Executive, Administration, and Integrative Complex
The World Executive is led by a Presidium of five persons elected by and responsible to the Parliament, one from each continent, and consisting of a rotating President and four Vice Presidents. The Executive has no military power and no power to veto the decisions of Parliament or to suspend the Constitution.
The World Administration is composed of about 30 departments, each headed by a Cabinet Minister or Vice President and coordinated by a Secretary-General chosen by the Presidium and confirmed by the Cabinet.
The Integrative Complex coordinates all agencies of government. It also consists of its own agencies that include: the World Civil Service, Boundaries and Elections, Institute on Governmental Procedures and World Problems, Research and Planning, Technological and Environmental Assessment, the World Financial Administration, and Legislative Review.
World Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Ombudsmus
The World Judiciary is led by five continental seats, and is comprised of eight specialized judicial benches, each having mandatory jurisdiction over specified legal or administrative issues.
The Collegium of World Judges is elected by the Parliament and is headed by a council of five members which assigns highly qualified judges to the various benches.
The Law Enforcement System consists of a non-military police force headed by an Office of World Attorneys General as well as a commission of twenty Regional World Attorneys, each one elected by and removable by Parliament.
The World Ombudsmus is an agency devoted to protecting human rights and ensuring proper government functioning, headed by a council of five World Ombudsmen aplus a commission of twenty Regional World Advocates, all elected by the Parliament.
This balanced and comprehensive system can provide a much-needed federal government for all humanity, based on the most advanced principles of parliamentary democracy along with checks and balances to prevent abuses of power.
The central agencies of the Federation, as the Mandala shows, are structured as councils of five leaders, one from each continental division, who rotate as president of their respective agencies. The 7 agencies of the Integrative Complex and 28 departments of the World Administration, staffed by professionals from the global civil service, are designed to bring order, intelligence, and cooperation into all global processes. The House of Nations and the experts in the House of Counselors bring the element of unity-in-diversity to the process of governing, thereby uniting all nations and peoples in the process of governing our precious planet Earth.
