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The Big Ideas: Citizenship, Sovereignty, Democracy, Federalism, Governance, etc.	World Federalists and the History of the Movement for Global Government
Reform of the Current International Order and its Instituions	World Federalist Commentary on Current Affairs
Regional Federations	Movements toward a World Congress and/or Constitutional Convention
Literature Reviewed	Other

The Big Ideas: Sovereignity, Democracy, Federalism, Governance, etc.

POLITICAL DEMOCRACY AS A CHECK ON ECONOMIC CAPITALISM By Ronald J. Glossop [TDWF- Winter 2006]	SAFEGUARDING THE PEOPLE FROM TYRANNY By John O. Sutter [TDWF- Winter 2006]	OBJECTIONS TO WORLD GOVERNMENT CONSIDERED By David R. Griffin [TDWF - Autumn 2005]
PARALLEL GLOBAL GOVERNANCE FOR PLANET EARTH? By John O. Sutter [TDWF- Autumn 2005]	THE CHICAGO DRAFT CONSTITUTION By Richard Carter [TDWF - Spring 2005]	CONSTITUTION FOR THE FEDERATION OF THE EARTH By Roger Kotila [TDWF - Spring 2005]
THE URGENT NEED FOR WORLD GOVERNMENT By Professor Errol E. Harris [TDWF- Winter 2004]	WORLD CITIZENS OR WORLD SUBJECTS? By John O. Sutter [TDWF-Winter 2004]	ANARCHY VERSUS DEMOCRATIC WORLD GOVERNMENT Review of an essay written by Dr. Glen Martin - By Roger Kotila, Member, WCPA [TDWF - Spring/Summer 2004]
WHERE IS THE GREATER PATRIOTISM, THE GREATER GOOD? By John O. Sutter [TDWF - Spring/Summer 2004]	SOVEREIGNTY, SELF-GOVERNMENT AND GLOBAL GOVERNMENT -- A WORLD FEDERALIST PERSPECTIVE By John O. Sutter [TDWF-Winter, 2002]	A NATION STILL LEARNING WHAT MADISON KNEW By Jack Rakove [TDWF- Summer 2001]
JAMES MADISON: FOUNDING FATHER By John O. Sutter [TDWF- Spring 2001]	THE MYTH OF LOSING NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY By John O. Sutter [TDWF- Autumn 2000]	A TIME FOR PRINCIPLE: THOUGHTS ON REFORMING THE AMERICAN POLITICAL PROCESS AND AMERICAN GLOBAL POLICY by John B. Anderson, President & C.E.O., World Federalist Association. [TDWF- Winter 2000]
BALANCE STATE SOVEREIGNTY WITH INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY -- SAYS KOFI ANNAN [TDWF- Autumn 1999]	AMERICANS WOULD ACCEPT A DEMOCRATIC WORLD GOVERNMENT Part I [ TDWF - Summer 1993] and Part II [TDWF- Winter 1999]	ON THE MATTER OF SOVEREIGNTY By Senator Alan Cranston [TWDF - Spring 1999]
FEDERALISM AND THE RIGHT OF PEOPLE TO SELF-GOVERNMENT Document proceeding from WFM Congress [November-1998]	WFA'S DEFINITION OF SOVEREIGNTY [Autumn-1997]	IT'S TIME TO BE WORLD PATRIOTS By John O. Sutter [TDWF- Summer 1996]
SOME AMERICANS & GORBACHEV By John O. Sutter [TDWF- Summer 1992]	AT OPENING UN CEREMONIES, FOREIGN MINISTERS CHALLENGED CONCEPT OF UNLIMITED SOVEREIGNTY [TDWF-Winter 1992]	AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CONCEPT OF FIRST PRINCIPLES Relative to the National Initiative for Democracy, sponsored by Philadelphia II

World Federalists and the History of the Movement
for Global Government

JOSEPH P. BARATTA, WORLD FEDERALIST HISTORIAN A review of Professor Baratta's book, The Politics of World Federation , by Dr. Ronald J. Glossop [TDWF - Winter 2005]	WE'RE THE DEMOCRATIC WORLD FEDERALISTS By Dr. John O. Sutter [TDWF - Winter 2005]	WORLD FEDERALISTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INAUGURATED [TDWF- Spring/Summer 2004]
BEYOND CONVENTIONAL WISDOM: NEW THINKING ON TERRORISM, WAR & WORLD ORDER An account of the Intergenerational Symposium held in San Francisco- October 21, 2001 by Roger Kotila [TDWF- Autumn 2001]	NORTH CAROLINA RESOLUTION OF 1941 [ TDWF- Winter 2001]	WALTER CRONKITE PROMOTES DEMOCRATIC FEDERAL WORLD GOVERNMENT [TDWF- Autumn 1999] (PDF version - can be used as brochure)
CALIFORNIA RESOLUTION OF 1949 [TDWF- Spring 1999]	WORLD CONSTITUTION RESOLUTION Passed by the W.F.A. Board on 15 November 1992 at the National Assembly in San Mateo, CA	SAFEGUARDING HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE RIGHTS OF PEOPLES Resolution passed by WFA Board in Oct. 1991 [TDWF - Winter 1992]
DECLARATION OF DUBLIN, N.H. , CONFERENCE [New York Times - October, 1945]

Reform of the Current International Order and its Institutions

BELLICOSE BOLTON VS. UNITED NATIONS & THE REST OF THE WORLD: CONSPIRING FOR SHOCK AND AWE #2? By John O. Sutter [TDWF - Spring 2005]	UNITED NATIONS CHANGE ON THE WAY? By Eric Schultz [TDWF - Winter 2005]	ANTI-WAR ACTIVISTS CONSIDER WORLD FEDERATION By Eric Schultz [TDWF-Autumn 2004]
STEPPING STONES Report from Matt Eisenbrandt, Litigation Director at the Center for Justice & Accountability in San Francisco, on U.S. Federal Court ruling on a Salvadoran military officer; Summary of Indonesia's proposal to enlarge the Security Council [TDWF - Autumn 2004]	THE UNITED STATES, THE EARTH, W.M.D. AND D.W.F. By John O. Sutter [TDWF-Autumn 2004]	UNCLE SAM, BULLY OF THE LITTLE COUNTRIES? From Newsday.com [TDWF-Autumn, 2004]
UN REFORM CONFERENCE LAUNCHES YEAR-LONG CAMPAIGN TO "EMPOWER THE UN" By Bill McCarthy, President of the Unity Foundation [TDWF - Spring/Summer 2004]	INTERNATIONAL LAW AND NEO-COLONIALISM By John O. Sutter [TDWF-Winter 2003]	STEPHEN ZUNES EXAMINES THE HEART OF TERRORISM IN HIS NEW BOOK, TINDERBOX By Eric Schultz [TDWF-Winter 2003]
RESOLUTION ON IRAQ Approved by WFA's national council in Denver, October 27, 2002	WAR WITH IRAQ: THE CONSTITUTIONAL AND MORAL QUESTIONS By Rep. Paul "Pete" McCloskey of Los Altos Hills, CA [TDWF-Autumn 2002]	RESOLUTION: INVOKING THE RULE OF LAW TO RESOLVE THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT Approved by the World Congress of the World Federalist Movement London, July 15, 2002
ISRAELI - PALESTINIAN CONFLICT EXCEEDING REGIONAL RESOLUTIONS, MUST BE ADDRESSED AS A GLOBAL CRISIS, DECLARES JOHN ANDERSON By John B. Anderson, President, World Federalist Association [TDWF- Spring/Summer, 2002]	ISRAEL'S 1967 BLITZKRIEG, ITS EARLY VICTIMS AND COVERUPS By John O. Sutter [TDWF- Spring/Summer, 2002]	TERRORIST MASTERS OR NATIONAL HEROES? By John O. Sutter [TDWF- Spring/Summer, 2002]
MANNED AND GUIDED MISSILES AND DEMOCRATIC WORLD GOVERNMENT By John O. Sutter [TDWF-Summer 2001]	ENTITLEMENT QUOTIENTS AS A ROUTE TO A MORE DEMOCRATIC UNITED NATIONS By Joseph E. Schwartzberg of Minneapolis [TDWF - Winter 2001]	KOSOVA -- MILOSEVIC'S FOURTH WAR By John O. Sutter [TDWF- Spring 1999]
LESSONS FROM WORLD WAR II By John O. Sutter [TDWF- Spring 1999]	WORLD TRANSITIONAL AUTHORITIES By John O. Sutter [TDWF - Autumn 1996]	BRINGING PEACE AND DEMOCRACY TO BOSNIA AND SERBIA By John O. Sutter [TDWF- Summer 1993]

World Federalist Commentary on Current Affairs

SOME AMERICANS & GORBACHEV By John O. Sutter [TDWF - Summer 1992]	GLOBAL UPDATE - INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT [TDWF - Winter 2004]	SHOULD AMERICA BE A REPUBLIC OR EMPIRE - OR WHAT? Innovative speaker, Dr. Jim Garrison, at annual luncheon and inaugural meeting [TDWF - Winter 2004]
NEEDED: A TRULY GLOBAL AMERICAN POLICY Open Letter to President George W. Bush by John O. Sutter [ TDWF - Winter 2001]	NATIONAL INTERESTS OR COMMON HUMAN INTERESTS? The Need for a Permanent UN Volunteer Force by Dr. Tad Daley. [TDWF - Autumn 1998]	REINVENTING INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS By Dr. Tad Daley [TDWF - Summer 2001]

Regional Federations

READERS RESPOND [ TDWF - Winter 2005]	UPDATE - EUROPEAN UNION [ TDWF - Winter 2004]	FROM CONFEDERACY TO FEDERATIONSpeech by Foreign Minister - Joschka Fischer, Berlin, 12 May 2000 [ TDWF - Autumn 2000]
12 MAIN ELEMENTS OF A EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION Drafted by the Union of European Federalists. [TDWF - Spring/Summer 2000]	FEDERALISM FOR THE 21ST CENTURY By Jo Leinen, President, Union of European Federalists. [TDWF - Summer 1999]	THE EVOLUTION OF NATO [TDWF - March 1999]
DEMOCRACY, REGIONALISM, AND THE SEARCH FOR PAX AFRICANA By Prof. Ali Mazrui, Director, Institute of Global Cultural Studies, Binghampton University [TDWF - Summer 1996]

Movements toward a World Congress and/or Constitutional Convention

LEADING EUROPEAN FEDERALIST CALLS FOR UN PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY By Jo Leinen, Member, European Parliament [TDWF - Spring/Summer 2004]	COALITION FOR A WORLD PARLIAMENT Excerpt from Nicola Vallinoto's report [TDWF - Spring/Summer 2004]	GLOBALISM, INTERNATIONAL DEMOCRACY AND A WORLD PARLIAMENT By Prof. Lucio Levi, University of Torino [TDWF - Winter, 2002]
NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR DEMOCRACY Links to documents, sponsored by Philadelphia II. The proposed Democracy Amendment to the United States Constitution & the Democracy Act , a proposed federal statute

Literature Review

EARTH FEDERATION NOW by Errol Harris
Review by Lyndon Storey
[TDWF- Winter 2006]

RETHINKING WORLD GOVERNMENT by James A. Yunker
Review by Ronald Glossop [TDWF- Winter 2006]

ONE WORLD DEMOCRACY: A PROGRESSIVE VISION OF ENFORCEABLE GLOBAL LAW
Preface from the book One World Democracy by Jerry Tetalman and Byron Belitsos
[TDWF - Spring 2005]

Other

FIRST WORLD PATRIOT AWARDS [ TDWF - Spring 2005]	LUCILE WOLFE GREEN (ISITT), 1917-2004 [TDWF - Winter 2005]	NON-WESTERN POLITICAL TRADITIONS AND WORLD FEDERALISM by Lyndon Storey [TDWF- Autumn 2004]
IMPRESSIONS OF LIBYA By John O. Sutter [TDWF - Spring/Summer 2004]	RALPH BUNCHE AND GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY By Professor Charles P. Henry, University of California Berkeley [TDWF- Winter 2004]	HUMANIST MANIFESTO 2000 By Prof. Paul Kurtz, Editor, Free Inquiry. [TDWF- Spring/Summer 2000]
OLD HISTORY, DUMB IDEALS by Bob Neumann