Six new books from GTM:
Millennium DawnWorld Revolution Through World LawEmerging World Law (co-edited with Eugenia Almand)Ascent to Freedom - The Philosophical Foundations of Democratic World LawTriumph of Civilization - Democracy, Nonviolence, and the Piloting of Spaceship Earth
(1) Millennium DawnThe Philosophy of Planetary Crisis and Human Liberation
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword by Dr. T. P. Amerasinghe
Chapter One
Introduction
1. The History Behind the Documents in this Book
2. World Revolution as a Paradigm Shift from Framentation to
Unity-in-Diversity
3. The Twisted Logic of the Nation-state system
4. Are We Within the Belly of a Beast or the Box of Our Own Assumptions?
5. Global Monopoly Capitalism
6. Economics - Inequality Structured into Law
7. The “Normalization” of Evil
8. Revolution and Legitimacy
Chapter Two
Declaration of the Rights of the People of
Earth to
Create and Ratify a World Constitution and hold Sessions of the
Provisional World Parliament
Commentary - Glen T. Martin: A Democratically Created Constitution and a
Founded World Order
Chapter Three
Manifesto of the Earth Federation
Foreword
1. Prologue
2. What the Earth Federation has accomplished to date
3. Humanity poised at the crossroads between destruction and
liberation
4. Failure of the United Nations
5. The dead end environmental hopes of Rio and Johannesburg
6. The condition of our world at the dawn of the twenty-first
century
7. Common sense economics under democratic world government
8. Where do we go from here?
Chapter Four
A Constitution For The Federation Of Earth
Preamble
Article 1 - Broad Functions of the World Government
Article 2 - Basic Structure of World Federation and World
Government
Article 3 - Organs of the World Government
Article 4 - Grant of Specific Powers to the World Government
Article 5 - The World Parliament
Sec. A - Functions and Powers of the World Parliament
Sec. B - Composition of the World
Parliament
Sec. C - The House of Peoples
Sec. D - The House of Nations
Sec. E - The House of Counselors
Sec. F - Procedures of the World Parliament
Article 6 - The World Executive
Sec. A - Functions and Powers of the World Executive
Sec. B - Composition of the World Executive
Sec. C - The Presidium
Sec. D - The Executive Cabinet
Sec. E - Procedures of the World Executive
Sec. F - Limitations on the World Executive
Article 7 - The World Administration
Sec. A - Functions of the World Administration
Sec. B - Structure and Procedures of the World Administration
Sec. C - Departments of the World Administration
Article 8 - The Integrative Complex
Sec. A - Definition
Sec. B - The World Civil Service Administration
Sec. C - The World Boundaries and Elections Administration
Sec. D - Institute on Governmental Procedures and World Problems
Sec. E - The Agency for Research and Planning
Sec. F - The Agency for Technological and Environmental
Assessment
Sec. G - The World Financial Administration
Sec. H - Commission for Legislative Review
Article 9 - The World Judiciary
Sec. A - Jurisdiction of the World Supreme Court
Sec. B - Benches of the World Supreme Court
Sec. C - Seats of the World Supreme Court
Sec. D - The Collegium of World Judges
Sec. E - The Superior Tribunal of the World Supreme Court
Article 10 - The Enforcement
System
Sec. A - Basic Principles
Sec. B - The Structure for Enforcement
Sec. C - The World Police
Sec. D - The Means of Enforcement
Article 11 - The World Ombudsmus
Sec. A - Functions and Powers of the World Ombudsmus
Sec. B - Composition of the World Ombudsmus
Article 12 - Bill of Rights for the Citizens of Earth
Article 13 - Directive Principles for the World Government
Article 14 - Safeguards and Reservations
Sec. A - Certain Safeguards
Sec. B - Reservation of Powers
Article 15 - World Federal Zones and the World Capitals
Sec. A - World Federal Zones
Sec. B - The World Capitals
Sec. C - Locational Procedures
Article 16 - World Territories and Exterior Relations
Sec. A - World Territory
Sec. B - Exterior Relations
Article 17 - Ratification and Implementation
Sec. A - Ratification of the World Constitution
Sec. B - Stages of Implementation
Sec. C - First Operative Stage of World Government
Sec. D - Second Operative Stage of World Government
Sec. E - Full Operative Stage of World Government
Sec. F - Costs of Ratification
Article 18 - Amendments
Article 19 - Provisional World Government
Sec. A - Actions to be Taken by the World Constituent Assembly
Sec. B - Work of the Preparatory Commissions
Sec. C - Composition of the Provisional World Parliament
Sec. D - Formation of the Provisional World Executive
Sec. E - First Actions of the Provisional World Government
Chapter Five
Summary and Analysis of the Earth Constitution
1. The Preamble
2. Article 1: Broad Functions of the Earth Federation
3. The World Parliament
4. The World Courts
5. The World Attorneys General and Police
6. The World Ombudsmus
7. The World Executive
8. Article 12: The First Bill of Rights
9. Article 13: The Second Bill of Rights
10. Article 14: Safeguards and Reservations for People and Nations
11. Article 17: The Process of Ratification
12. Article 19: Provisional World Government
Chapter Six
Essays on the Promise and Necessity of World
Law
1. The Philosophy of Anarchism versus the Philosophy of
Democratic World Government - Glen T. Martin
2. The Earth Constitution and the Question of Sovereignty -
Terence P. Amerasinghe
3. The Roots of Terrorism in “Sovereign” Nation-states and the Path
to a Secure World Order - Glen T. Martin
4. Are We Unteachable? - Errol E. Harris
5. World Legal Revolution - Eugenia Almand
6. The Philosophy of Nonviolence and World Revolution Through
World Law - Glen T. Martin
7. The Principles of Ecology and the Earth Federation -
Glen T. Martin
Chapter Seven
Conclusion: Pledge, Resolution, and
Revolution
1. The Pledge of Allegiance to the Federation of Earth
2. Commentary on the Pledge of Allegiance - Glen T. Martin
3. The Campaign for a Transformed World Order
4. Resolution for the Creation of a Democratic World Parliament
5. The Urgency of World Revolution Through World Law - Glen T.
Martin
Appendix: The Development of a World Parliament: A Brief History
Selected Bibliography and Works Cited
Index
(3) Emerging World Law -
Key Documents and Decisions of the Global Constituent Assemblies and Provisional World Parliament
Edited by Eugenia Almand and Glen T. Martin, with a Preface by Dr. Terence Amerasinghe.

This book includes the work of the World Constituent Assemblies and the Provisional World Parliament from the origins of this movement in 1958 until the present. It will include commentary on the world legislative acts and the Constitution for the Federation of Earth, a history of the World Constitution and Parliament Association, a substantial introduction and conclusion, and other important material. 2010, Institute for Economic Democracy Press.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface (by Terence Amerasinghe)
Subintroduction
Chapter One:
Introduction
(by Glen T. Martin)
1.1 The Greatest Gift to Humankind: the Possibility of Peace and Prosperity
1.2 The Structures and Functions of World Unity through World Law
1.3
Democratic World Law: Democracy
and Private Property
1.4
Democratic World Law: Democracy
and Sovereignty
Executive Summary of the Earth Constitution
Charts and diagram plates of Earth Federation
Chapter Four:
Manifesto of the Earth Federation
Photo Plates from the historical roots and from the World
Constituent Assemblies
Subintroduction
Chapter Five:
Analytical Commentary on World Constitutions
(by Eugenia Almand)
Chapter Six:
The Constitution for the
Federation of Earth (by World Constituent
Assemblies: primary authors Henry P. Isely, Terence.P. Amerasinghe,
Chapter Seven:
Interpretation of the Earth
Constitution (by Eugenia Almand)
Chapter Eight:
Legitimate World Law
Chapter Nine :
Resolutions and declarations of the provisional World Parliament
Chapter Ten:
Legislative Summaries of World Legislative Acts 1
through 42
Chapter Eleven:
Conclusion – Volume 1
Index for Volume 1
- Practical & Philosophical Foundations of Democratic World Law
Glen T. Marin
January 2008
This book expresses the transformative meaning of the concepts of "democracy" and "law" as these have emerged from the Western philosophical tradition. It studies the paradigm-shifts in the social and natural sciences that open up an entirely new, holistic and emergent evolutionary view of reality and shows the connections with democratic world law. It traces the history of the philosophy of law from Ancient thought to the present and explains the immense possibilities of the democratic idea for a world of peace, freedom, justice, and prosperity. January 2008, Institute for Economic Democracy Press.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Philosophy and law
1.2 Ascent to Democratic Freedom
1.3 Ascent to Planetary Maturity
1.4 Outline of the Chapters Below
CHAPTER TWO: THE PARADIGM SHIFT FROM HUMAN NATURE TO HUMAN POSSIBILITIES
2.1 The Task of Philosophy in Our Day
2.2 Rational Freedom and the Depths of Existence
2.3 Beyond Reductionism to Responsiveness
2.4 Contemporary Psychology and Human Possibilities
2.5 Rational Freedom Oriented toward Wholeness and Kant's Categorical Imperative
CHAPTER THREE: EMERGENT EVOLUTIONISM AND SCIENTIFIC HOLISM
3.1 The Axis Period in Human History
3.2 The Paradigm of Newtonian Physics and Philosophy
3.3 The Paradigm Shift of the Twentieth Century
3.4 Science, Values, and Emergent Evolution
3.5 The Newtonian Paradigm and "The Sea of Faith"
3.6 Holism and Humanity
CHAPTER FOUR: ANCIENT THOUGHT TO THE RENAISSANCE
4.1 Democracy and Our Common Humanity
4.2 The Pre-Socratic Beginnings
4.3 Plato
4.4 Aristotle
4.5 The Stoics and Cicero
4.6 St. Augustine
4.7 St. Thomas Aquinas
4.8 The Renaissance and the Birth of the Modern World
CHAPTER FIVE: HOBBES, LOCKE, AND ROUSSEAU
5.1 Hobbes and the Early Modern Period
5.2 John Locke
5.3 Locke and Private Property
5.4 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
CHAPTER SIX: KANT, HEGEL, AND MARX
6.1 Immanuel Kant
6.2 Kant and World Law
6.3 Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
6.4 Karl Marx
6.5 Marx and World Law
6.6 Overview of Western Philosophy of Law
CHAPTER SEVEN: TWENTIETH-CENTURY MORALITY, LAW, AND HUMAN RIGHTS
7.1 Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Conventional Aspects of "Law" and "Morality"
7.2 H.L.A. Hart's Conception of Law and Beyond
7.3 Wittgenstein and Morality
7.4 Morality and the Philosophy of Law
7.5 The Community of Rights in the Thought of Alan Gewirth
7.6 The Community of Rights in the Thought of Leonard Nelson
CHAPTER EIGHT: J
ÜRGEN HABERMAS8.1 Language and Values
8.2 Explanation versus Emergent Evolutionary Abilities
8.3 Morality Beyond Discourse Ethics
8.4 Democracy and Law
CHAPTER NINE: THE DEMOCRATIC FOUNDATIONS
9.1 Historical Overview
9.2 The Modern World System
9.3 Fragmentation and the Quest for Wholeness
9.4 The Paradigm Shift to Holism and the Common Good
9.5 John Dewey: Democracy as a Foundational Moral Framework for Human Life
9.6 Democracy and Self-Transcendence
9.7 Seven Criteria for Democratic Law
CHAPTER TEN: THE LEGITIMACY OF LAW IN NATION-STATES
10.1 Effectiveness Criteria for Political Legitimacy
10.2 The Illegitimacy of Nation-States Today
10.3 The Concept of Sovereignty of the People of Earth
10.4 Sovereignty and the Emerging Earth Federation
10.5 International Law and the U.N. System
CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE PROMISE AND NECESSITY OF WORLD LAW
11.1 Theory and the Modern Paradigm
11.2 Contemporary Scholarship on Nation-statehood and Sovereignty
11.3 The Enlarged Ecological-Democratic Paradigm
11.4 Restoring the Legitimacy of Nations under Article 14 of the Earth Constitution
11.5 Consequences of Transformed Assumptions under the Earth Federation
11.6 A Supreme Act of Civil Obedience to a Unified World Order
CONCLUSION: ASCENT TO FREEDOM
12.1 Emergent Destiny and our Maturity Fear
12.2 Ten Philosophical Foundations of Democratic World Law
12.3 Ascent to Freedom
A CONSTITUTION FOR THE FEDERATION OF EARTH
Appendix: A Brief History of the Earth Constitution
Works Cited and Bibliography
Index
Democracy, Nonviolence, and the
Piloting of Spaceship Earth
(2010)
Triumph of Civilization examines the concepts of democracy and nonviolence in the light of our global twenty-first century crises and develops a deeper understanding of democracy as inherently nonviolent and fundamentally holistic. Our current world is analyzed in terms of its degree of democracy and levels of violence, showing that today’s civilization is both profoundly undemocratic and intrinsically violent. The book reveals the way out of our current crises through establishing a non-military Earth Federation that actualizes the three most fundamental features of authentic democracy: positive freedom, reasonable economic equality, and a global community of unity in diversity.
Table of Contents
Preface
The New Holism of Our Time
3
Basic Arguments of this Book
9
PART ONE: PLANETARY AWAKENING AND THE IMPERATIVE FOR
GENUINE DEMOCRACY
15
1.2
The Promise of Democracy
22
1.3
Rationality and Community
25
1.4
Our Higher Human Potential
31
1.5
Holistic Spirituality
36
2.2
Positive Freedom and Planetary Democracy
50
2.3
Democracy and Human Evolution
61
2.4 The Moral Imperative for Planetary Democracy
69
2.5
Maturity and Democracy
74
Education and a Holism: Foundations for a New Planetary Ethic
3.2
Holism and the Principle of
Unity in
diversity
94
3.3
The Fragmented Modern World and Historical Forces that
Impede Human Development
98
3.4 Education for Critical Consciousness
102
3.5 Education for a Democratic World Order
107
Chapter Four: The Deep Violence of Our Modern World
System
115
4.2
Religion
and Nonviolence
112
4.3
The
Violent Structure of Today’s World System
125
4.4
Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Violence of
Nihilism
133
5.2
Religiously Motivated Violence
145
5.3
A Nonviolent
Political and Economic Order for Earth
152
6.2
Nation-states,
Monopoly Capitalism, and Violence
162
6.3
Primitive Accumulation, Banking, and
Corporations
167
6.4 World Trade, International Banking, and the Threat of Global
Totalitarianism
174
PART THREE: DAWN OF A HOLISTIC EARTH CIVILIZATION
181
7.2
Eight
Principles of Authentic Democracy
188
7.3
Socialism: Economics Based on Fundamental Human Values
194
7.4
Democracy Requires a United World under the
Earth
Constitution
208
7.5
Monetary Reform: Its Basic Agreement and Fatal Flaw
215
7.6 Specific
Economic Arrangements under the
Earth
Constitution
220
8.2 Military
Service is both Contradictory and Immoral
239
8.3 The
Sovereign Nation-State System as Inherently Terrorist
246
8.4 The
Moral Vacuum of Today’s International System
254
8.5
The Locus of Legitimate Democratic Government
257
9.2 Civilian
Police verses Military Force
268
9.3
Principles of Nonviolence behind the
Institutionalization of Peace
274
9.4
The
Institutionalization of Peace
278
10.1
Ascent to the Freedom of Holism
286
10.2
Planetary
Maturity
288
10.3
A Founded Society
291
10.4
A Common Sense Political and Economic System 293
10.5
Rationality and Spirituality
295
10.6
Nonviolence
297
10.7
The
Triumph of Civilization
298
Index
386
A Constitution for the Federation of Earth - With Historical Introduction, Commentary, and Conclusion
2010
This book represents the first time the Constitution for the Federation of Earth has been appeared in print from an official press with its own ISBN number. The Constitution was developed by a drafting committee of 25 persons with feedback from hundreds of world citizens over a period of 33 years from 1968 to 1991. In this premiere edition, Glen T. Martin has written a substantive historical introduction situating the Earth Constitution within the world federalist movement of the past 80 years, an extensive commentary on the Constitution that explains the significance of its 19 articles one by one, and a conclusion in which he discusses the larger meaning of the Constitution and the Earth Federation Movement that promotes it. The book includes bibliography and index as well as a number of appendices containing the relevant documents surrounding the Constitution and the Earth Federation Movement.
Table
of Contents
I.
Historical
Introduction: The Most Important Document
of
the 20th and 21st Centuries
1. The Absolute Need for a Planetary Constitution
2. Definitions of World Federalism
3. Historical Overview of World Federalism
4. Creation of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth
5. World Federalism Today
6. Proposals for U.N.Reform
7. Proposals for an Earth Constitution
8. Conclusion: A World Federal Constitution as a Human Right
II. A
Constitution for the Federation of Earth
Preamble
Article 1 - Broad Functions of the Earth Federation
Article 2 - Basic Structure of World Federation
Article 3 - Organs of the Earth Federation
Article 4 - Grant of Specific Powers to the Earth Federation
Article5 - The World Parliament
Article 6 - The World Executive
Article 7 The World Administration
Article 8 - The Integrative Complex
Article 9 - The World
Judiciary
Article 10 - The Enforcement System
Article 11 - The
Article 12 - Bill of Rights for the Citizens of Earth
Article 13 -Directive Principles for the Earth Federation
Article 14 - Safeguards and Reservations
Article 15 - World Federal Zones and the World Capitals
Article 16 - World Territories and Exterior Relations
Article 17 - Ratification and Implementation
Article 18 - Amendments
Article 19 Provisional Earth Federation
3. Sample Parliamentary Resolution
for all legislative bodies
4. Executive Summary of the Earth Constitution
5. The Development of the Earth Constitutionand Provisional World Parliament: A Brief History
6. Declaration of the Rights of the People of Earth to create and ratify a World Constitution and hold sessions of the Provisional World Parliament
7. How you can support the Earth Federation
Movement