The WorldVoter - Special Edition - municipal council resolution

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The WorldVoter
the newsletter of
Vote World Parliament
— democratic world parliament through a global referendum —

https://voteworldparliament.org/
Vote World Parliament co-presidents are Ted Stalets and Jim Stark
http://www.rescueplanforplanetearth.com/
This site, above, is for the VWP companion book, Rescue Plan for
Planet Earth

Special edition, March 3, 2011

VWP is asking city and town councils around the world to pass a
resolution (see below) supporting the global referendum and calling on
their local citizens to go to our website (or the municipality’s
website, if they upload the voting booth) and cast their votes. We
invite you to be a player in this potentially historic event.

After doing an informal survey of a dozen or more people in your area
(to make sure that popular support for a democratic world parliament
is likely there), we ask you to contact your local councilor and try
to persuade him or her to present our short resolution to council, and
also to lobby other councilors prior to the council meeting where our
short resolution will be brought up for a vote. Please note:

1 This assignment will take up only a few hours of your life.

2 This will cost you and your municipal council no money whatsoever.

3 With people dying daily in North Africa and the Middle East in
pursuit of democracy, the time has come to apply democratic principles
to world politics.

4 The short form of our resolution and the longer background document
are available at https://voteworldparliament.org/pdf/municipal-campaign-short.pdf
and
https://voteworldparliament.org/pdf/municipal-campaign-long.pdf

5 If this works, your efforts will have played a key role in getting
the global referendum to go viral on the Internet and in the media.

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Here is the short version of the municipal council resolution:

Draft resolution for the ___________________ City Council

Provided by Vote World Parliament
voteworld...@webruler.com
https://voteworldparliament.org/

MOVED BY
___________________________________________________________________

SECONDED BY
___________________________________________________________________

WHEREAS numerous citizens of Ward # ____ (or
____________________________, the name of ward or city used for the
informal survey) have indicated that they are in favour of the
creation of a democratic world parliament and want the
____________________________ City Council to take meaningful action
towards this goal;

and

WHEREAS the establishment of a democratic world parliament is likely
the only way to end all war, ensure human survival and deal
effectively with other supranational issues;

and

WHEREAS the great majority of sensible people deeply appreciate the
benefits of and the need for democratic governance at the municipal,
provincial and national levels and would be inclined to support this
same alternative to anarchy at the global level;

and

WHEREAS the ballot wording for a global referendum on this option has
been formulated very precisely to read: “Do you support the creation
of a directly-elected, representative and democratic world parliament
that is authorized to legislate on global issues?”;

and

WHEREAS the mandate from a successful global referendum could be
considered as legally binding under international law and would be
politically compelling in any event (“successful” in this context is
defined as a situation where at least 50% of all human adults have
voted, and at least 67% of these votes are in the “yes” column);

and

WHEREAS the principle of subsidiarity indicates that all political
problems should be dealt with by the smallest appropriate political
unit, and since the issue of global security (the protection of the
Earth and its people) is not being handled at all well by governments
above the level of the city or town, city and town councils are
legally permitted and morally bound to act as best they can to assure
that a democratic world parliament is established as soon as
possible;

BE IT RESOLVED THAT:

___________________ City Council will ask all local adults (16 years
old or older) to participate now in the Internet-based global
referendum on the proposed creation of a directly-elected,
representative and democratic world parliament (see https://voteworldparliament.org/
for details about this global referendum) and City Council will upload
a digital voting booth onto our municipal website for this purpose (to
upload the voting booth link, see https://voteworldparliament.org/shadowbox/getballot.html).