Chapter 2: Charter of the Commons' Convention
2.3. Contents of the Charter of the Commons' Convention -Part1-
The Charter of the Commons' Convention, while having the World Commonwealth Charter as its ultimate source of law, has a unified legal structure encompassing the Zonal charters and the charters of the Quasi-Zones and local areas within each Zone, so that its specific contents will also be unified as a whole.
The ultimate source of law, the World Commonwealth Charter, is a global "constitution" that incorporates universal charter principles. The first basis of the Charter is "commons' sovereignty". Commons' sovereignty is the ultimate political principle that the commons are the governor of society, and it is the foundation of the governing structure based on the Commons' Convention.
Based on this principle, the global minimum institutional outline for the Commons' Convention, which should be common to all the zones that comprise the World Commonwealth , will be laid down in the "Covenant on the Commons' Convention," which is annexed to the the World Commonwealth Charter.
Next is "permanent peace." This is not merely a spiritual principle, but a principle that totally prohibits the right of the Zones that comprise the World Commonwealth to possess armaments and to manufacture and deploy weapons, and is the basis for the Arms Abolition Treaty. However, it does allow for the joint possession of a minimum level of joint forces for peacekeeping and the equipment necessary for their operation, and assures a principled provision on the operation of such forces.
The third is "universal human rights." This will be the culmination of the international human rights norms that have already been collected in the two international human rights covenants (the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights), but unlike the present human rights covenants, which are separate from the UN Charter, the new covenant on universal human rights shall be consolidated and integrated into the World Commonwealth Charter. In terms of content, however, it will evolve to conform to the nature of communist society.
Since the World Commonwealth Charter is the fundamental law of the world, it will have a relatively simple structure, focusing on provisions of principle, and world law in the nature of a treaty will be enacted separately to embody its contents. Various world laws that specify the details of the governing structure of the World Commonwealth itself will also be enacted separately.
By the way, the enactment and amendment of the Charter are carried out by the World Commons' Convention, which has the status of the General Assembly of the World Commonwealth, and the requirement for voting is the presence of four-fifths of the delegates and the approval of two-thirds of them.
This procedure for amendment is not so much for reasons of principle as for technical and practical reasons, such as the virtual impossibility of a direct vote on the amendment of the Charter on a world-wide scale. In exchange, the voting requirements shall be as strict as described above.
👉The papers published on this blog are meant to expand upon my On Communism.
