United States Congress and World Federation

Article originally published by DWF News

“Of all our studies, History” says Malcolm X “is best qualified to reward our research.”  So, when we look at the continuous, systemic narrative of past ideas and concepts related to World Federalism, World Government and World Law their relevance and appeal to today is clearly evident. 

As early as 1949, the U.S. House of Representatives debated its Concurrent Resolution 64; in 1950 the U.S. Senate debated its Concurrent Resolution 56 calling for the United States to pursue a foreign policy dedicated to strengthening the United Nations with the eventual goal of building it into a world federation.  The full text of the House Concurrent Resolution 64:

Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring, that it is the sense of the Congress that it should be a fundamental objective of the foreign policy of the United States to support and strengthen the United Nations and to seek its development into a world federation, open to all nations, with defined and limited powers adequate to preserve peace and prevent aggression through the enactment, interpretation, and enforcement of world law.

Why are the America people, certainly the majority, not aware of this?  Why is the idea of world federation, world government, or world law not mentioned in high school Government and Civics classes?  It should be well known.  The House resolution had 111 co-sponsors.  The Senate’s had 21, with broad support from both Republicans and Democrats.  The co-sponsors included John F. Kennedy, who was then serving as a Democratic Representative from Massachusetts’ 11^th district and Gerald Ford, Republican, who was representing Michigan’s 5^th congressional district.  In other words, world federation, world government and law are not “new” or “fringe” ideas but quite mainstream.

In fact, the paragon mainstream journalist, Walter Cronkite, makes the following observation: “It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step towards a world government patterned after our own government.” 

We Democratic World Federalists believe that world peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government.  We call for the US Congress to support DWF’s demand for the UN General Assembly to open a review of the fatally flawed UN Charter combined with an evaluation of the Earth Constitution as a model world federal constitution better suited for a “new UN” given the tools it needs to end war and eliminate the danger of a global nuclear nightmare.