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Show -2- despotic of' political authority, such" s are provided by electod parliajury, habeas' corpus and due process of law. Man must now either oxer-c i.s o monts, trial by consolidate his historic rights or lose them for generations to c ome f fg , changes wrought in human society by science, inrlustryand by the spiritual, social and intellectual forces which nations here impregnate 9,11 cu l +ur-os .. make polit Lee I and geographicnl isolation of at last life of the is human race indissolubly Tho organic after impossible. made unified and C1m never be s evcr od , but it must be poitically ordained and of functions tho all oveznmorrt of D.. capable discharging g Only subject to law. such ce.n and accomplish tho judicial spheres oxecutive, legislative sovoroignty in instruments as of in the now Civilization treaties, requires laws, place D.. task. Tho intr'icato conditions of modern life to regulate COl:'JDorce between peoples. The c eus e Les s economics, as well as laws essential hnve rendered treaties ineffectual and obsolete, and made is here. of laws the is trec..ties of The dead; age evitablo. ago o.nd in jurisdict.ion .to local g eogr-aphd ce I areas, can Just' as of the human race. or fulfill the obligations no longer satisfy the needs was and nationalism, superseded by f'eudc Li sm served its purpose in human history in this generation und yiolded its hegemony so has ntionalism roached its apogae The first duty of govern7.cnt is to pro in tho body politic to internationalism. when and governments cease to perform this function_ they tect lifo und property, Cover-nrnerrt s , limited in their more principle of their raison dtetre. Nationalism, territorial or the is no longer able to pr-eser-ve the political independence over J so tragically confirms. Sovereignty is an recent as of history nations, integrity for the world to botter It is idealogical concept without geographical barriers. Lc.I s oc justice and pence than be ruled by an international sovereignty of' r-oas on, of preventing their own by diverse nctional sovereignties organically incapable if ciVilization capitulute on dissolution the fundamental by conquest. Mankind must pool its resources of defense is to endure. History has revealed but extensive territories, can one principle by which free peoples inhabiting unite under one local government without impairing their dthout preserves tho wholo principlo is federntion, s without jeopardizing the whole. its and par-t its parts strengthens them with security and freedom to Federation vitalizes all nc.tions by endowing It regards without menace of foreign domination. develop their respective cultures as a citiaon and individual and an a s as sac r-osancb man's personality, his rights the cornman enterprise of building his role as a partner with all other men in reduc It suppresses he cr-Ime of wa.r 'by civiliza.tion for the benefit of menk md autonomy. destroying whose virtue That , renders unnec possibility of its occurronce. It ing of wealth for belligerent D.ctivity, and essary the further paralyzing expenditure of war against the fortunes and services canco l s through the ages the mortgages and assets of society for of men. It releases tho full energies, intelligenco It recognizes behalf of humanity. aneliorative and redemptive work on c reab fve It apprehends an authentic potentinlity. us man's morning vision of his dostiny' c s brothers and all human beings everywhere the entire human race as one family, an indivisible community. of' nations us component parts to the ultiuute inim the , of all nations oxcept endless war. altrnative to the federation can organize the internQtionul com the Wor[d No subatitute for The Federation of Even if continental, regional and permanent peace. munity on the basis of freedom of these federations; the governments or ideological federations were uttempted, would be obliged to main defenses, their separate· in an effort to make impregnable and navies, thereby c ondemnf ng humaru.by to.in stupendously competitive armies ultimate carn compulsory military service and indefinitely to exhaustive -baxation, futile but positively avoidable roveals to be not only cri.rninally age, which history should exchiled federating all through judicious fores ight in 1tS s t.o as that scppres w1111ng of the 'V'Torld from membership in The Federation There is no nation. o ation b |
