Chapter XI Limits of Global Parliament competences
We want to continue offering the world this unique perspective of the Global Community. We want Global Parliament Constitution to be the template for the research and development of Global Parliament's Constitution. This requires changes because Global Parliament primary focus is only including a few aspects and are shown here:
- essential services
- the Judiciary
- the Global Protection Agency (GPA)
- Global Ministries
Over the past several decades, the Global Community along with the Federation of Global Governments (Federation), have promoted a just and fair global government. The United Nations (UN) organization does not offer such global service to all Peoples. It is not a government. It is not a democratic institution. It has no power to legislate, protect and offer essential services. There is no Justice possible coming from the UN. The Five Permanents Members are the only rule of law. There are themselves subsidized by corporate rulers, lobbyists with vested interests in keeping things the way they are now. There are no change in sight because they cannot change themselves. We must let go the UN. It is a 20th Century WWII organization that can truly make things work for only 5% of the world nations. Staying with the UN certainly means there will not be a 22nd Century to live for most people on Earth. The world needs a 21st Century organization able to manage Earth and bring hope in every home.
The Global Community organization is the only possible and practical solution to our world. We know how everything work, and we know what to do to make it work for us all.
We do not relate in any way with the United Nations. We are here to replace it. For several decades the Global Community has tried very hard to reform the United Nations. It has become clear that the United Nations promotes a culture of waste, mismanagement and corruption, and that it cannot reform itself. Today, the only logical, most equitable and sustainable alternative, is to replace it with the Global Community .
The Global Movement to Help is the final product of assessment of the work from all Participants of Global Dialogue 2008. It is very important that the Movement be promoted by all Global Citizens. From now on we serve the people of all nations, all life on Earth. Each Global Government is made more responsible and accountable to the people of member nations within the region where it operates. Essential services to the people of each member nation are now the most important global rights on the Scale of Global Rights and are protected by the Global Protection Agency (GPA) of each member nation. The GPA is also a global emergency unit to give help and working with Global Parliament to give a more efficient help. Global Parliament is the place of meeting of all Global Governments and serves all people.
This Movement is described here. First the meaning of the Global Community expression was defined back in 1985.
All Global Citizens are a part of this Global Community and have accepted the Criteria of Global Citizenship.
We are all volunteer soldiers
of the Global Community Peace Movement.
Global Community Global Movement to Help offers Essential Services to serve the people of all nations, all life on Earth. As a first step to getting help, all nations can and should approve the first three sections on the Scale of Global Rights.
The approval would supersede the political and physical borders of participating member nations. The approval would mean politics and justice without borders only
concerning those three sections, i.e essential services.
The Global Protection Agency (GPA) would have the approval from all member nations to give immediate help, bypassing normal government protocols.
Somewhat like an emergency unit but at the global level. That is what those first three sections on the Scale of Global Rights
mean. They represent an efficient and immediate emergency response to help.First, participating member nations need to give their approval to the GPA. The GPA is a global organization much like the World Trade Organization (WTO) for trade between nations, the World Health Organization (WHO) for health, or the European Union, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), South American Community of Nations (SACON) for trade and economics. The GPA offers an efficient emergency response to help. The GPA is a short term solution, an immediate and efficient response to help. There are also long term solutions. As with the short term solution, the most significant long term solution is also related to the Scale of Global Rights. The Scale was entrenched in Global Parliament Constitution and is thus the fundamental guide to Global Law. Now the Scale of Global Rights is a long term solution and is also a part of the Global Movement to Help of the Global Community. The Scale was designed to help all life on Earth. What would be preferable is that nations unite amongst themselves to help.
Over time, we have seen the creation of the United Nations, the European Union, the South American Community of Nations, and the North American Free Trade Agreement. Except for the UN, these organizations are mainly concerned with trade and economics.
The Global Community offers a more meaningful union in the form of nine or more Global Governments. For instance the South American Community of Nations can be a Global Government by simply accepting Global Parliament Constitution as a way of dealing between member nations. A Global Government is concerned not only with economics and trade, but also with the environment, health, agriculture, energy, food, social, cultural and many other essential aspects.
The Federation of Global Governments is the place of meeting between Global Governments. It a part of Global Parliament.
The very first step of Global Parliament, and maybe the only one for several decades ahead of us, would be the approval of essential services amongst the participating member nations. The Global Community has researched and developed such services and listed them here. All of them are already in operation on a small scale. We want each Global Government to take a larger share of responsibility of the specific region where it operates, and be more accountable to the people of that region. And we want a Global Government to be made of wealthy nations as well as nations in need of help. Be compassionate. Each Global Government is obliged to offer Essential Services to the people of its member nations.
The Federation of Global Governments is now applying more emphasis on the urgent need from the people of all nations to give everyone essential services. The urgent need to give all Global Citizens essential services was made obvious in the past few years after the occurrence of natural disasters, and by global destruction and disasters created by governments and the military. The Global Community has already declared a planetary state of emergency to that effect.
Today, earquakes, cyclones and other natural disasters, as well as human made global destruction and disasters, require a rapid and efficient response from the world to help those in needs. We need to be organized and ready to help. We need all nations to be a part of this Global Movement to Help.
In the chaos after the magnitude 7.9 earthquake in China, which made 5 million homeless, many survivors were separated from their families. Burma was hit by a cyclone at the beginning of the month of May, leaving over two million persons in need of emergency relief. Thousands of children and parents have been separated. Nowadays, natural and human made disasters have become more frequent and require a rapid response to help.
The Global Community offers both a short term solution and a long term solution to the people of all nations. Both solutions have been integrated into the Scale of Global Rights
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itself a necessary first step which must be approved by all of us. 
)Global Movement to Help main listing:
What we offer to the people of all nations is to guarantee rights of Sections 1, 2, and 3 on the Scale of Global Rights.
We serve all people of the Global Community, the people of all nations, all life on Earth, much like an emergency unit would do on a global level.
Concerning Sections 1, 2, and 3, it shall be the Global Community highest priority to guarantee these rights to their respective Member Nations and to have proper legislation and
implement and enforce global law as it applies and as shown in Global Parliament Constitution.
Section 1. Global [ Ecological, environmental, protection of life-support systems ] rights
Section 2. Primordial human rights
Section 3. The Global [ Ecological, environmental, protection of life-support systems ] rights, and the primordial human rights of future generations
Those are our essential services.
The GPA is a global organization much like the World Trade Organization (WTO) for trade between nations, the World Health Organization (WHO) for health,
or the European Union, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), South American Community of Nations (SACON) for trade and economics.
The GPA offers an efficient emergency response to help.
Global Civilization guides humanity for the building of global communities. This is a great opportunity for globallateralism. Global Law includes legislation covering all essential aspects of human activities.
The Global Protection Agency (GPA) will train and lead a global force, bypassing traditional peacekeeping and military bodies such as the United Nations and NATO. The GPA will enforce the law. And that is a long term solution
to the planetary state of emergency
we offer the Global Community. And that is also how we can stop the global warming of the planet and protect the global life-support systems, thus largely improving the quality of life of the next generations.
As we enact Global Law, we will begin to take on a much deeper kind of global leadership, one that earns more respect than envy and more gratitude than hatred, one that can catapult the whole planet forward into a future where war is
no longer thinkable between nation-states and a legitimate and beneficial global government is able to cope with global problems.
Global Rights year one
is a new impetus of the Global Community to educate everyone about the
need for a change in thinking and of doing things amongst all nations.
We need to realize what is a priority, what is the most important, and
what is the least important for our survival. We need to make hard choices.
We need a clear vision. We need a common vision. And we must all change!
There are many important aspects of our lives we can no longer do, or should
never do anymore. They are destructive. Humanity and all life can no longer
afford activities that destroy life and the global environment. And there
are other activities we must do, certainly thousands of them, to assure
the survival of life on Earth. In view of the planetary state of emergency
we all must change, we must do things differently to give life on Earth
a better survival chance.
The Global Community Global Justice Movement along with the Global Community Peace Movement 
have been and continue to be the two major pillars of the Global Movement to Help.
The Global Justice Movement has many inter-related components: monetary, social, economic, environmental, democracy, and peace.
The Global Community Global Justice Movement promotes new thinking to benefit all economies and societies – the true, fair, democratic and efficient solution to poverty.
The Global Community has the productive resources to eliminate poverty and injustice. Humanity is now in the process of developing the democratic and transparent communications
infrastructure which can bring this about.
Our approach transcends left-wing/right-wing designations. We see both conventional capitalism and socialism as being two arms of a philosophy which concentrate power in an
elite, to the detriment of society as a whole. Reforming the current money system, to empower each and every person, is a first step for justice.
The Global Community Global Justice Movement stands for:
1. Each person has the right to have warmth, clean air, clean water, food and housing, along with access to a quality health and educational system.
2. Every person should be respected, equal, free and able to choose their own destiny.
3. Everyone should be able to fulfill their full emotional, intellectual and spiritual potential.
4. Every person must respect the rest of creation and take responsibility for preserving the environment including the fauna and flora, all of which are interdependent
and share a divine origin with humanity.
5. The inalienable rights of the individual include the rights of life, liberty, access to productive property, truly free markets, and equal justice before the law.
6. Global Economic System that is fair for all.
7. It is the duty of democratic government to secure the results the people want from the transparent management of their public affairs, as far as such results do not
infringe on the rights of the individual.
8. The Global Community Global Peace Movement is about educating ourselves to engage in personal diplomacy in another country. We are given
opportunities to meet and listen to some of the leading authorities on such subjects as humanitarian
and volunteerism, education, politics, historical, social and cultural perspectives, conflict management, teamwork, world affairs, community involvement, and religion.
9. Global Justice for all Life on the planet and it is about:
* establishing respect for human and Earth rights;
* implementing a global regulatory framework for capitals and corporations that emphasizes global corporate ethics, corporate social
responsibility, protection of human and Earth rights, the environment, community and family aspects, safe working
conditions, fair wages and sustainable consumption aspects;
* establishing freshwater and clean air as primordial human rights;
* practicing tolerance and living together in peace and harmony with one another as neighbours;
* promoting the economic and social advancement of all peoples;
* maintaining peace and security in the world by using negotiations and peaceful means;
* finding unity in diversity with all Life;
* establishing the respect for the life-support system of the planet;
* keeping Earth healthy, productive and hospitable for all people and living things, and
* applying the principle that when there is a need to find a solution to a problem or a concern, a sound solution would be to choose a measure or conduct an action, if possible, which causes reversible damage as
opposed to a measure or an action causing an irreversible loss.
The Global Community has shown that corporate-style globalization that ignores the needs of the poor and the environment will no longer be tolerated. The Global Community
is joining students, environmentalists, people of faith, human rights activists, and others, in the global struggle against corporate
globalization being fought in cities and towns across the world.
We works on issues of global economic and social justice and sustainability. We believe another world is possible and necessary. We envision a world free of corporate
domination and crushing debt, particularly in communities of color. We act to expose and change the institutionalized violence wrought by international financial and
trade institutions such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization.
Cancel all impoverished country debt to the World Bank and IMF, using the institutions' own resources.
End all World Bank and IMF policies that hinder people's access to food, clean water, shelter, health care, education, and right to organize.
(Such "structural adjustment" policies include user fees, privatization, and so-called economic austerity programs).
Stop all World Bank support for socially and environmentally destructive projects such as oil, gas, and mining activities, and all support for projects such as dams that
include forced relocation of people.
We are committed to nonviolence and recognizes militarism as a tool used by the global corporate elite to keep money flowing to the privileged few while restricting the
rights of people worldwide. We oppose corporate practice which places short-term profits ahead of human dignity, sustainable development and a healthy earth. We stand for
the globalization of our rights to speech, thought, religion, assembly, a clean environment, self-determination, freedom from fear and persecution and freedom
from poverty.
We stand for the rights of women, children, elderly, affordable health care, strong labor rights and social and economic policies that put people and the environment before
profits. We are opposed to the globalization of greed and obscene concentrations of wealth -- we say that
another world is possible and necessary.
The Global Community is a non-hierarchical nonviolent organization of individuals and organizations that promotes the arts, conducts workshops, facilitates nonviolent direct actions,
educates, organizes, campaigns, empowers, and aims to rip injustice from its roots.
The Global Community movements for Global Peace, Global Justice, and the Global Movement to Help, are committed to making all Global Dialogues and Global Exhibitions safe spaces that are open, accessible, and accepting of all.
We welcome everyone to participate in making this happen. If you have any special needs, please let us know.
Article 1: Fundamental principles
1. The limits of Global Parliament competences are governed by the principle
of conferral. The use of Global Parliament competences is governed by the
principles of subsidiarity and proportionality.
2. Under the principle of conferral, Global Parliament shall act within
the limits of the competences conferred upon it by Member Nations in
the Constitution to attain the objectives set out in the Constitution. Competences
not conferred upon Global Parliament in the Constitution remain with
Member Nations.
3. Under the principle of subsidiarity, in areas which do not fall within
its exclusive competence, Global Parliament shall act only if and insofar
as the objectives of the intended action cannot be sufficiently achieved
by Member Nations, either at central level or at regional and local level,
but can rather, by reason of the scale or effects of the proposed action,
be better achieved at Global Parliament level. Global Parliament Institutions shall apply the principle of subsidiarity as laid
down in the Protocol on the application of the principles of subsidiarity
and proportionality, as shown in Chapter 25. National Parliaments
shall ensure compliance with that principle in accordance with the procedure
set out in the Protocol.
4. Under the principle of proportionality, the content and form of Global Parliament action shall not exceed what is necessary to achieve the objectives
of the Constitution. The Institutions shall apply the principle of proportionality
as laid down in the Protocol referred to in paragraph 3.
Article 2: Global Law and the decision-making process
1. The Constitution, and Global Law adopted by Global Parliament's Institutions
in exercising competences conferred on it, shall have primacy over the law
of Member Nations.
2. Member Nations shall take all appropriate measures, general or particular,
to ensure fulfilment of the obligations flowing from the Constitution or
resulting from Global Parliament Institutions' acts.
3. In dealing with difficult problems and having to decide what to do about harm done to a person, a community
or a nation, the Earth Court of Justice and Global Parliament shall be guided by
Article 3, Chapter 10.2, the Scale of Global Rights, which shows the limits of Global Parliament , its priorities, concerning the enforcement of
global law with respect to the Scale six (6) sections. Section 1 has more importance than all other sections below, and so on.
Concerning sections 1, 2, and 3, it shall be Global Parliament highest priority to guarantee these rights to Member Nations and to have proper lesgislation and
implement and enforce global law as it applies. Concerning Sections 4, 5 and 6, it shall be the aim of Global Parliament to secure these other
rights for all global citizens within the federation of all nations, but
without immediate guarantee of universal achievement and enforcement. These
rights are defined as Directive Principles, obligating Global Parliament
to pursue every reasonable means for universal realization and implementation.
4. Global Law and the understanding of paragraph 3 shall apply throughout Global Parliament organs, bodies and institutions, and to all global citizens.
Article 3: Categories of competence
1. When the Constitution confers on Global Parliament exclusive competence
in a specific area, only Global Parliament may legislate and adopt legally
binding acts, Member Nations being able to do so themselves only if
so empowered by Global Parliament or for the implementation of acts adopted
by Global Parliament.
2. When the Constitution confers on Global Parliament a competence
shared with Member Nations in a specific area, Global Parliament
and Member Nations shall have the power to legislate and adopt legally
binding acts in that area. Member Nations shall exercise their competence
to the extent that Global Parliament has not exercised, or has decided
to cease exercising, its competence.
3. Global Parliament shall have competence to promote and coordinate
the economic and employment policies of Member Nations.
4. Global Parliament shall have competence to define and implement
a global security policy, including the progressive framing
of a common defence policy.
5. In certain areas and in the conditions laid down in the Constitution,
Global Parliament shall have competence to carry out actions to support,
coordinate or supplement the actions of Member Nations, without thereby
superseding their competence in these areas.
6. The scope of and arrangements for exercising Global Parliament's
competences shall be determined by the provisions specific to each area in
Chapters 12.
7. The protection of the global life-support systems.
Article 4: Exclusive competence of Global Parliament
1. Global Parliament shall have exclusive competence to establish the
competition rules necessary for the functioning of the global market,
and in the following areas:
a) monetary policy, for Member Nations which have adopted a replacement currency, the 'global equivalent money',
2. Global Parliament shall have exclusive competence for the conclusion
of an international agreement when its conclusion is provided for in a legislative
act of Global Parliament, is necessary to enable it to exercise its internal
competence, or affects an internal Global Parliament act.
b) global commercial policy,
c) customs,
d) policies and strategies concerning the protection of the global life-support systems,
e) application of global law concerning global ecological rights and primordial human rights as stated in
the Scale of Global Rights of Chapter 10,
f) the concervation and protection of essential Earth resources needed for survival of Life on Earth, and
g) the conservation of marine biological resources under the global fisheries policy.
Article 5: Areas of shared competence
1. Global Parliament shall share competence with Member Nations where the Constitution confers on it a
competence which does not relate to the area referred to in Article 4, Chapter XI.
2. Shared competence applies in the following principal areas:
a) area of freedom and justice,
b) application of global law concerning rights other than global ecological rights and primordial human rights as stated in
the Scale of Global Rights of Chapter 10
c) global security
d) global fight against crime
e) Asylum, immigration, border control
f) agriculture and fisheries, excluding the conservation of marine biological resources,
g) transport and trans-global networks,
h) energy,
i) social policy, for aspects defined in Chapters 19 to 26,
j) economic, social and territorial cohesion,
k) environment,
l) consumer protection,
m) peace movement,
n) emergencies and rescues,
o) agriculture and food production,
p) implementation of policies and strategies concerning the protection of the global life-support systems, and
q) common global safety concerns in public health matters.
3. In the areas of research, technological development and space,
Global Parliament shall have competence to carry out actions, in particular
to define and implement programmes; however, the exercise of that competence
may not result in Member Nations being prevented from exercising theirs.
4. In the areas of development cooperation and humanitarian aid, Global Parliament shall have competence to take action and conduct a common policy;
however, the exercise of that competence may not result in Member Nations
being prevented from exercising theirs.
Article 6: Coordination of economic and employment policies
1. Global Parliament shall adopt measures to ensure coordination of
the economic policies of Member Nations, in particular by adopting broad
guidelines for these policies. Member Nations shall coordinate their
economic policies within Global Parliament.
2. Specific provisions shall apply to those Member Nations which have
adopted the 'global equivalent money' in replacement to their currencies.
3. Global Parliament shall adopt measures to ensure coordination of
the employment policies of Member Nations, in particular by adopting guidelines
for these policies.
4. Global Parliament may adopt initiatives to ensure coordination of
Member Nations' social policies.
Article 7: Global security policy
1. Global Parliament's competence in matters of global
security policy shall cover all areas of global policy and all questions
relating to Global Parliament's security, including the progressive framing
of a common global defence and security policy, which might lead to a common global defence.
2. Member Nations shall actively and unreservedly support Global Parliament's
global security policy in a spirit of loyalty and mutual solidarity
and shall comply with the acts adopted by Global Parliament in this area.
They shall refrain from action contrary to Global Parliament's interests
or likely to impair its effectiveness.
Article 8: Areas of supporting, coordinating or complementary action
1. Global Parliament may take supporting, coordinating or complementary
action.
2. The areas for supporting, coordinating or complementary action shall
be, at global level:
– industry,
3. Legally binding acts adopted by Global Parliament on the basis of
the provisions specific to these areas in Chapters 19 to 26 may not entail harmonisation
of Member Nations' laws or regulations.
– protection and improvement of human health,
– education, vocational training, youth and sport,
– culture,
– civil protection.
Article 9: Flexibility clause
1. If action by Global Parliament should prove necessary within the
framework of the policies defined in Chapters 19 to 26 to attain one of the objectives
set by the Constitution, and the Constitution has not provided the necessary
powers, the Earth Executive Council, acting unanimously on a proposal from Global Parliament , shall
take the appropriate measures.
2. Using the procedure for monitoring the subsidiarity principle referred
to in Article 1(3), Chapter 11, Global Parliament shall draw Member Nations' national Parliaments'
attention to proposals based on this Article.
3. Provisions adopted on the basis of this Article may not entail harmonisation
of Member Nations' laws or regulations in cases where this Constitution excludes
such harmonisation.
