World Unity 23
The great medieval Italian poet Dante specifically mentions in his political writings that the Roman Empire was divinely chosen. God revealed his approval of Rome by performing miracles to assure the domination of the world by the Romans. Dante believed that the laws of states expressed natural laws which were destined by God to create the happiness of all men. Furthermore, he believed there should be a universal superstate embracing all nations and countries that would prevent wars between states and guide states to rule men in their jurisdictions justly by laws derived from god-given natural laws that lead to universal brotherhood. For Dante to rise to such a grand idea of humanity’s political needs in a medieval Italy torn apart by savage intercity wars is amazing. What would Dante write if he lived now in America and witnessed that 50 sovereign states were already unified by a government in Washington with the powers of a superstate? Would he not walk among us Americans holding in his hands a copy of our Constitution and tell each of us that our sacred document embodies universal principles of human rights that it is our duty to extend to all our brothers on our globe? If he succeeded in thus convincing us of our union’s divine destiny, the blissful knowledge could then be communicated to the greatest of humanity’s poets that the powerful democratic government in Washington with its military spread worldwide to counter evil is not a state. Humanity already has a super powerful central government ready to assume the role of the central government of a worldwide union of states and it is itself not a state! Washington is a perfect solution for both great and small states yearning for worldwide union but fearful of submitting to the power of another state! Washington can not become a new Rome with the power to rule over states but it can have the glory of being the seat of the central democratic government of a world union of states, the center of something like a new worldwide Holy Roman Empire.
The United States of the World, The Theater of the Impossible, The End of All Beginnings, books by Daniel McNeill, are for sale at:amazon.com/author/graceisall
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