THE NEED FOR A LOGICALLY PLANNED WORLD

GOVERNMENT AND LAW

Thomas Aquinas declared the object of government to be "the good of the people;" and he defined the law as "an ordinance of reason promulgated for the common good."  Thomas Paine tells us that all men are equal by birth; and that, consequently, the purpose of our laws and government should be to preserve our equality.  James Madison stated that the object of government was to enable all people to possess liberty, and the freedom to pursue his or her individual self-interests.

Mankind thus requires a governing entity that will focus its view and direct its efforts on a worldwide basis, solely toward the freedom, equality, security, benefit, and productivity of all people.  We require, moreover, worldwide governing principles that will be enforceable, and uniformly enforced everywhere.

The basic purposes and functions of any government--including the world government that is proposed herein--must be to provide for the security and welfare of the citizenry.  Thus, it is necessary for systems and procedures to be created and put into place that will so serve and assist all the world's people all of the time.  The wishes of all must be determined and considered--but not necessarily blindly followed.  For the world's governing body should and would be composed of experts--who would not be courting votes in a forthcoming election--but whose primary purpose must be the provision of the greatest amount of benefit that can be afforded to its constituency (i.e., mankind).

Such a governing body cannot be oppressive.  It must meed the needs of all, to the extent that is reasonably possible; and it must afford the opportunity and right for all to live in peace, and for all to pursue happy, productive, and healthy lives.

Self-interested aspirations of individuals have no place in the guidance of our world.  Neither does any form of consolidation of religious and secular power within any governing persons or entities.  Church and state are two separate sacred institutions--and they should always remain separate and sacred.  Neither should ever rival the other; nor should they ever be linked in any fashion.

As long ago as the 1830s, Henri Saint-Simon, a noted French author and political philosopher of his day, envisioned the role of government as the pursuit of a scientific approach to human affairs.  Today, this evaluation is even more appropriate and crucial.  Pursuant to this, a primary role and task of government is to conduct inventory on a worldwide basis, and to re-examine everything regularly, so as to determine the current needs and requirements of all; to determine what resources and personnel are on hand, and thus what needs to be acquired or produced in order to adequately meet all of these needs in a prompt and effective fashion.  Provision for such needs and requirements should always include adequate reserves and replacements, as well as readiness for various possible contingencies.  Such contingencies may not have yet occurred; may not be expected to take place soon, if at all; or may simply never happen.  But Mother Nature, as well as man-made conditions and circumstances, have an ironic manner of surprising everyone--sometimes cruelly, sometimes tragically.  We must therefore be as ready as we can for any reasonably possible eventuality.

The personnel and expense necessarily attached to such substantial levels of assistance and preparedness would likely be more than compensated for via the economies that would be afforded mankind by reason of the fact that there would no longer need to be numerous armies and armaments in numerous separate countries.

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