Section VI
World-coalition legislative bodies:
“one parliament” and “three houses”
(A) World coalition parliament
1. The organizational status, authority, functions, and responsibilities of a world coalition parliament
A world coalition parliament—also called “a world coalition congress”—would be the world’s top political organization exercising the supreme political power over the world. The said parliament would act as the sole and the most faithful and powerful representative of all world citizens.
A world coalition parliament would be responsible for (1) conceptualizing, formulating, and enacting all legislation—including the World Constitution—on behalf of all world citizens, (2) deciding on the setup, scheme of manning, and jurisdiction of a world-coalition governmental institution, and (3) appointment and authorization. A world coalition parliament would be responsible for supervising and appraising the performance of principal leaders of a world coalition government and for removing the incompetent ones from the said government.
A world coalition parliament would most resolutely safeguard the World Constitution and laws and would give firm support to the policies and measures adopted by world coalition government and world coalition judicial commission.
2. The setup of a world coalition parliament
The said parliament is composed of one chairperson, vice-chairpersons, speakers and deputy speakers for the three houses, one fifth of the membership of each of the three houses, director and deputy directors of world coalition judicial commission, president, deputy presidents, and chief grand justice of the world supreme court, presiding judge and chief judge of the special court under world supreme court, president, deputy presidents, and chief prosecutor of world supreme prosecutorate, director, deputy directors, and head prosecutor of the special prosecutorial agency under world supreme prosecutorate, president, deputy presidents, and commander-in-chief of world coalition police general headquarters, director, deputy directors, and chief of special police force of the special police department under world coalition police general headquarters, director and deputy directors of world lawyers’ administration, and presidents of all the commissions under the direct control of world coalition parliament.
In order to be saved from the defects inherent in the existing parliaments or congresses in the world, a world coalition parliament would seek to differ from them in both organizational format and system of working procedures. A world coalition parliament should not be a ballooned organization overstaffed to clumsiness and sluggish in responding to an unexpected impact and ought to steer itself completely clear of racism, sexism, and any other form of discrimination or segregation.
Apart from being excellently knowledgeable about international politics, international laws, and world history, a member of a world coalition parliament should be correctly oriented politically, highly moral, and passionate about well-being of the world population. In activating its members into its routine, a world coalition parliament should be scientific in making relevant arrangements and enthusiastic in encouraging its members to be noble-minded and popular.
It would be appropriate for world coalition parliament to have, as its members, noted religious leaders, outstanding scientists, and celebrated scholars, but sufficient representation in the said parliament or in any of the three houses should be allotted to the populace. Special session should be held regularly in the said parliament as well as in any of the three houses for the purpose of listening to the comments or suggestions made by members elected by the populace. In the process of nominating candidates for membership of the said parliament and any of the three houses, attention must be paid to the average age of candidates nominated, so that the age of an appropriate percentage of nominees would be under fifty.
3. The world coalition parliament versus the United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization that has accumulated much experience in dealing with international political affairs in the nearly sixty years since its foundation and is rated by the international community as a reliable supra-national organization for holding political consultation among its member nations. The negative side of the United Nations stems completely from the fact that it is expected to fulfill all the tasks which should be normally carried out by (1) a world coalition parliament and the three houses, (2) a world coalition government and the seven agencies under its direct control, and (3) a world coalition judicial commission. It is due to such a fact that the United Nations could only botch all these tasks up.
All countries in the world need an international organization like the UN. All the world population wants it. World politics calls for it. The future of mankind desires its existence. In other words, the kind of United Nations which the human race is in dire need of is not the United Nations as it is today, because the concepts underlying the structure of the present-day United Nations, the actual hierarchical format of the present-day United Nations, and the functions the present-day United Nations is capable of performing have already fallen far short of what the world population expects of it. Now the human race has begun to land itself in the Global Village, so now it is time mankind mastered the art of managing its own political affairs.
The United Nations should and is able to convert itself into a mature world coalition parliament. In essence it has already been a world coalition parliament. Were the United Nations intent on converting itself into a world coalition parliament, it would have to change the central concept of its operation, introduce reforms into its system, and effect a transformation of its functions. As the United Nations has a fairly fully-fledged administrative hierarchy, such a hierarchy might be incorporated into the prospective world coalition government. As the UN has a fairly complete legislative setup and a fairly complete judicial setup, these two setups might be integrated respectively with the prospective three houses and world coalition judicial commission. Since all member nations of the UN have sent their representatives to the UN, in case neither such representatives nor their governments object to having them transferred to and work for the prospective world coalition parliament, they might go to work for the said parliament after they have completed some formalities and then are sworn in. Since there have already been under the UN a series of established international organizations specializing in fields such as environmental protection, military affairs, economic affairs, international trade, public health, cultural affairs, educational affairs, science. These established international organizations might be, after having undergone some necessary formalities, readily transplanted to their counterparts respectively in the seven agencies under the direct control of world coalition government, three houses of world coalition parliament, and the three arms under the direct control of world coalition judicial commission.
The human race should be confident of the firmness of both its determination guided by its conscience and its sense of responsibility on the ground of its long evolutional process having extended over several millennia. So we should have faith in the conscience of numerous UN officials hailing from all parts of the world. I believe that in case they were required to voluntarily renounce their nationalities for the spell of time they serve a world coalition government and the world population, almost all governments across the world would have no objection to that; and nor would the overwhelming majority of such UN officials choose to do otherwise.
(B) World coalition lower house
1. The authority and functions of the lower house
A world coalition lower house—also called a world coalition house of representatives—is an institution representing the world population in the most direct and intense way and exercising the deepest influence on legislating and decision-making in the parliament. It is obligatory for all members of the lower house to do everything in their power to safeguard political rights of all world citizens and the interests they are entitled to. Every member of the lower house ought to be faithful to all world citizens and keep the promises they have made to the general public before the election. The lower house should fully respect and obey world coalition parliament and fully respect the upper house and the house of political consultation. The lower house should adhere to human rights, rather than the so-called “the mass line” and learn to be able to judge which part of public opinion is really correct, prevalent, and in line with the laws. All members of the lower house should act not only as representatives of the world population but as educators, guides, and leaders.
2. The principles governing representation in the lower house
The lower house is composed of a speaker, ten deputy speakers, and its members. Every ten million world citizens are eligible for electing a member to the lower house. (A special constituency or a country with a population less than ten million is also entitled to electing a member to the lower house.) Lower house election should take place every three years. At every lower house election, the total number of new members to be elected to the lower house should not exceed half of the total number of the old members, so that after every lower house election only half of the old members of the lower house are replaced by new members. This is for ensuring functional stability and continuity in the lower house. A lower house election should be conducted equitably and openly. The maximum of re-election a lower house member is entitled to is three. At the expiration of his or her term of office, a member to the lower house will return to his or her status of a world citizen and have to live on the income from a new job. In some special cases, an ex-member of the lower house will be protected and supported by a world coalition government.
(C) World coalition upper house
1. The authority and functions of the upper house
The upper house functions (1) both as a supervisor of legislating in world coalition parliament and policy-making by a world coalition government and as a modifier of draft bills to be enacted by the parliament or draft resolutions to be adopted by a world coalition government, (2) as a regulator of the relations between the lower house, the house of political consultation , and the parliament, and (3) as a regulator of the relations between the three of the lower house, the house of political consultation, and the parliament on the one hand and the world coalition government on the other. A member of the upper house can more often than not play a decisive role in getting a world coalition government to improve its competency and in getting the world public to accept a plan or policy formulated by a world coalition government. So it is incumbent upon a member of the upper house to help a world coalition government with improving its performance and urge all world citizens to respond actively to a world coalition government. A member of the upper house is expected to be most concerned about the performance of a world coalition government. The profession of a member of the upper house can be a pitfall that tends to transform a statesman into a crafty politician engaging in small politics. On the other hand such a profession also tends to be taken advantage of by a statesman of integrity to defeat nasty politicians. It is easy for a member of the upper house to become a celebrity whom world citizens would sincerely trust, but it is equally easy for a member of the upper house to be degraded into a villain to outrage world citizens most disgustingly.
2. The principles governing representation in the upper house
A world coalition upper house is composed of one president, ten deputy-presidents and members of the upper house. Every fifty million world citizens are entitled to electing a member to the upper house. (A special constituency or country with a population less than fifty million is also entitled to electing a member to the upper house.) An upper house election is held every six years. The number of new upper house members to be created at every new upper house election should not exceed one third of the total number of the old upper house members. This is for ensuring functional stability in the upper house and functional continuity in its operation. An upper house election should be conducted equitably and openly. No upper house member is allowed to be re-elected more than once. After the expiration of his or her term of office, an upper house member should secure a livelihood from a new source. In a special case, a world coalition government should provide protection and allowance to a former upper house member.
(D) World coalition house of political consultation
1. The authority and functions of the house of political consultation
A world coalition house of political consultation is responsible for providing political consultation to world coalition parliament, world coalition government, world coalition lower house, world coalition upper house, and world coalition judicial commission. It can play a special role in designing and drafting basic legislation to be enacted by the parliament and in helping world coalition government with formulating basic government policies. It should strive to enrich the soul of world population, become top advisor to world coalition government, and protect the well-being of the world population. Into a world coalition house of political consultation should be elected such personages as are the cream of the nations they belong to. But a world coalition house of political consultation should be very careful in performing its duties so that its activities may not interfere with administrative exertion on the part of a world coalition government or eclipse the authority of world coalition parliament. The position of a member of the house of political consultation could provide an easy access to sectarianism, if it were taken up by a lowlife of a politician. But it is also a vantage point of an official position when it is taken up by an honorable soul to destroy political oligarch or to cripple sectarianism.
2. The principles governing representation in the house of political consultation
A world coalition house of political consultation is composed of one president, ten deputy presidents, and a membership not surpassing in number the membership of the upper house. Most of the members of the house of political consultation are world-famous statesmen, scientists, religious leaders, jurists, judges, and scholars. Candidates for membership of the house of political consultation should be nominated separately by chairperson of world coalition parliament and president of world coalition government. But the nominations should be approved by chairperson of world coalition parliament. The term of office for a member of the house of political consultation is six years. A member of the house of political consultation is entitled to only one re-election. After the expiration of his or her term of office, a member of the house of political consultation should draw a livelihood from a new occupation. In a special case an ex-member of the house of political consultation may receive protection and a pension from a world coalition government.
President and deputy presidents of the house of political consultation should be elected by secret ballot.
