World Commonwealth Charter: Preface
The World Commonwealth is a communist union of the world's peoples that is not based on a sovereign state system, in place of the United Nations (UN), which currently functions as a federation of sovereign states in the world. This is the futuristic framework proposed in my On Communism.
Although the World Commonwealth itself is not a nation--therefore, it is completely different from the so-called "world federation" theory--it is a single governing structure that encompasses the entire globe, and it has basic law. This is the World Commonwealth Charter.
The World Commonwealth Charter can be said to be a fundamental law comparable to the United Nations Charter. However, unlike the UN Charter, which is merely a treaty law that mainly stipulates the basis for the establishment and organizational structure of the UN, the World Commonwealth Charter is a unified legal source for zonal charters that correspond to the constitutions of each zone that makes up the World Commonwealth. Therefore, the constituent zones cannot enact zonal charters that are contrary to the World Commonwealth Charter. It is the nature of the World Commonwealth Charter to have such strong normative binding force.
However, while the World Commonwealth Charter also has the characteristics of an organizational law that provides the basis for the establishment of the World Commonwealth and stipulates its organizational structure, it also includes various provisions regarding fundamental human rights. In this regard, the current UN Charter does not include provisions regarding fundamental human rights, and its weakness can be seen in the fact that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which has weak normative standards, and the two International Bill of Human Rights are scattered separately from the UN Charter.
On the other hand, the World Commonwealth Charter directly includes fundamental human rights clauses and therefore binds the charters of each constituent zone, ensuring the transnational guarantee of fundamental human rights. Therefore, if the people of each zone experience a violation of their fundamental human rights, they will be able to directly seek redress from the Human Rights Review Board of the World Commonwealth.
In this series, I will not only outline the World Commonwealth Charter, but also present a draft proposal article by article in English and Esperanto. But since this is a private draft proposal, ultimately, a formal draft is planned to be formulated through collective discussions within the World Commons' Convention, which is the body responsible for creating the World Commonwealth and will serve as its general assembly after the World Commonwealth is established.
The overall structure of the Charter is shown in the Table of Contents below. Click on the "page" below to access each article that has been uploaded.
Preamble page1
Chapter 1: Purposes (Article1) page2
Chapter 2: Structure of the World Commonwealth (Article2) page3
Chapter 3: Principles and Status of Constituent Zones, etc. (Article3-6) page4
Chapter 4: Organs (Article7-8) page5
Chapter 5: The General Assembly (Article9-16) page6 page7
Chapter 6: The Conference of the Grand-Zonal Permanent Representatives Plenipotentiary (Article17-19) page8
Chapter 7: The Sustainability Council (Article20-28) page9 page10
Chapter 8: World Economic Planning (Article29-37) page11 page12
Chapter 9: Sustainable Energy Development (Article38-44) page13
Chapter 10: Transnational Management of Natural Resources (Article45-53) page14 page15
Chapter 11: Permanent Peace (Article54-55) page16
Chapter 12: The Peace Council (Article56-63) page17 page18
Chapter 13: Peaceful Resolution of Disputes (Article64-74) page19 page20
Chapter 14: Peacekeeping and Aerospace Vigilance (Article75-87) page21 page22
Chapter 15: Fundamental Human Rights (Article88-108) page23 page24 page25 page26 page27
Chapter 16: The Board of Human Rights Review and Enforcement (Article109-113) page28
Chapter 17: The Special Humanitarian Tribunal (Article114-118) page29
Chapter 18: The Transnational Investigative Agency (Article119-121) page30
Chapter 19: The Social and Cultural Council (Article122-131) page31 page32
Chapter 20: The Charter Council (Article132-135) page33
Chapter 21: Global Environment Observation (Article136-138) page34
Chapter 22: Space Exploration (Article139-141) page35
Chapter 23: Trust Proxy Governance (Article142-145) page36
Chapter 24: The Independent Religious Autonomous Area (Article146-151) page37
Chapter 25: The Secretariat and Personnel Council (Article152-157) page38
Chapter 26: Independent Investigation and Impeachment (Article158-164) page39
Chapter 27: Miscellaneous Rules (Article165-169) page40
Chapter 28: Transitional Provisions regarding World Official Languages
Chapter 29: The World Commonwealth Calendar
Chapter 30: Amendment (Article170-171) page41
Chapter 31: Signature and Ratification (Article172-174) page42