Lanterna Rally

Author: Barbara M. Walker

Publisher: World Federalist Assn

Published: 1987-06-01

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 9781880533017

From their beginnings World Federalists have drawn inspiration from the creation of the United States Constitution in Philadelphia in 1787. On the bicentennial of those achievements the World Federalists have made available some of the best of the innumerable reports on the issues faced there, the decisions reached & the thoughts those have inspired in other later political thinkers. World Federalists see what happened in Philadelphia, 200 years ago as a model for what needs to happen in the world today. The Articles of Confederation were to the 13 new nation-states of 1776 what the United Nations Charter is to the world today: a non-binding treaty that no nation pays much attention to. The book's six main sections consist of: 1) excerpts from modern studies of the Constitutional Convention; 2) articles on the Founding Fathers; 3) contemporary debates among Federalists & anti-federalists, including papers by Alexander Hamilton & James Madison; 4) essays by modern Federalists favoring World Federation; 5) other examples of Federalism, such as that now emerging in Western Europe; & 6) plans for transforming the United Nations into a federal world government. Order 1-800-428-3927, FAX 1-202-546-3749.