World Unity 47

Hegel, the German philosopher, looked beyond the political realities of his time to America. He suggested that the full burden of history’s march towards humanity’s freedom could not be born by Europe alone. “America is therefore the land of the future,” he wrote in The Philosophy Of History, “where in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the world’s history will reveal itself.” American political experience agrees completely with Hegel’s notion that only the state can be the form where freedom can and should be exercised. But American experience also proves that the freedom of all individuals can not be exercised fully in a state that possesses full national sovereignty. A fully sovereign state always puts full power and full freedom in the hands of a minority of its citizens. Such power can be reduced and spread around throughout a population to free all citizens only if the political power of a state is not absolute. A state can be “the moral whole” and “that form of reality in which the individual has and enjoys his freedom” without being a fully sovereign state if it can become a member state of a just union of states with a central government  with the legal power clearly stated in a Constitution to force states to support freedom for all their citizens. The American Federal Government has already lightened history’s burden by assuming some of the sovereign power of 50 states but it has not lessened their sovereign power to govern themselves democratically and provide for their citizens a moral whole where they can live freely.
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World Unity 45

In Hegel’s great work, The Philosophy Of History, the German philosopher not only claims that world history has a divine purpose but also that the divine development going on is perfectly rational. Absolute Spirit expresses itself throughout history in a variety of forms. The universal aim of spirit at work in history is human freedom. The oriental world knew only the freedom of one man, as for example the pharaoh in Egypt. The Greek and Roman world knew only the freedom of some men, since slavery was instituted. The Protestant Germanic states of Hegel’s time, the early nineteenth century, finally realize the freedom of all. “The essential being,” Hegel wrote, “is the union of the subjective with the rational will: it is the moral whole, the state, which is that form of reality in which the individual has and enjoys his freedom.” Since Hegel’s time, states in Europe providing a form for the realization of their citizens’ freedom have also been forced tragically to provide armies as a vehicle for their citizens to kill citizens from foreign states in grand battles and two world wars. The history of Europe after Hegel showed clearly that if Absolute Spirit was going to produce human freedom it would have to take some form other than the European nation-state.
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World Unity 44

Peoples in the past created communities inspired by their sense of the divine. Ancient Egypt was a divine empire. Ancient philosophers believed the business of governing was a divine vocation. Moses's laws tried to make moral goodness the basis of his community. Saint Augustine in his great book, The City Of God, the Civitas Dei, claims that in world history two states exist side by side, the civitas dei and the civitas terrena, the heavenly city of God composed of the good and the earthly city composed of the unredeemed. Nation-states in our time do have nasty, difficult, practical problems to deal with but that should never be an excuse for leaders acting corruptly and immorally. A government like our government in Washington with its trillions of dollars in revenue and its freedom as a central government from the day-to-day tasks of state governments should never act selfishly and immorally. Washington should become in our 21st century a central world international government of a worldwide union of states with saintly leaders gathered from all over our globe promoting with their great power Saint Augustine’s civitas dei.
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World Unity 43

 Everyone believes that democracy is the best form of government and that everyone should live in a democratic state. But the terrible disruptions of civil peace going on all over the globe demand more than democratic governments with democratic leaders. We need holy democratic leaders, saintly leaders, men who will not take any action with the power voted to them by their fellow citizens unless it is good, honest, pure, moral and in the best interest of all. Down with all leaders who are merely pragmatic! We need leaders who really believe that every human being has universal rights that must be supported and respected and that humanity possesses a divine purpose for living on earth. It is an illusion to believe that because the bourgeoisie took control of states in the 19th century and used governments exclusively to make laws to support their selfish economic goals that humanity is condemned forever to suffer dominated by greedy and selfish leaders who never consult the grace to do good that God put in their soul. 
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A New Union of English-Speaking People

Suppose a girl born in Vancouver Canada with parents immigrants from China reads James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. Can she claim as an English-speaking person that this great novel written by an Irishman is her native literature? It seems to me she can  because as English-speaking by birth she has the same cultural identity as for example an English-speaking Australian whose great grandparents were both English. Whatever identity we have as English-speakers it is a solid identity. We need to do something to assert its reality. We are already citizens of one English-speaking state out  of 70 and we need to see that the political unity of the 70 is crucial to our cultural, political and economic well being in a new globalized world.
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The United English-speaking States of the World 2

Suppose a girl born in Vancouver Canada with parents immigrants from China reads James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. Can she claim as an English-speaking person that this great novel written by an Irishman is her native literature? It seems to me she can  because as English-speaking by birth she has the same cultural identity as for example an English-speaking Australian whose great grandparents were both English. Whatever identity we have as English-speakers it is a solid identity. We need to do something to assert its reality. We are already citizens of one English-speaking state out  of 70 and we need to see that the political unity of the 70 is crucial to our cultural, political and economic well being in a new globalized world. Some of the best minds in the UK are advising the young in Britain to emigrate because the solid British identity of the past is gone crushed by globalism and excessive immigration. The Prime Minister of Canada, Trudeau, has said that a Canadian no longer has a national identity. Well, the children of immigrants to Canada and Britain and to all the other English -speaking states do have a solid cultural identity. We as well as they all speak English as our native language, the language of great writers and thinkers from the four countries of the UK as well as from the United States, Canada and everywhere else that people learn English natively. Just a few years ago I taught in an urban high school where the majority of my students were not white Americans and had all possible skin colors. They had an identity already that had nothing to do with national identity except that being born in one of the 50 English-speaking states of America made them English speakers. They could already communicate with one another as easily as can all English-speaking persons. English speaking has nothing to do with Chauvinism. It opens people to one another in a way that nothing they may ever experience  can ever change. They know who they are when they talk in the same language to others of any race from any country who also discover who they are by receiving an identity by speaking English natively.

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The United English-speaking States of the World 1

England united by military force Britain and Ireland and with a secure  base at home proceeded to conquer and rule one quarter of the globe. The sovereignty of England was the fatal flaw that ruined the continuation of the British Empire. England, the state of England, has not been a separate national state for over 400 years, but the sovereignty of England, of the English element in Britain, has been a power fiercely guarded by the English down to our time. The King or Queen are sovereign. They are the power behind Parliament. The power behind the royal sovereign has always been the English. The royalty combined with the English  equals the sovereignty of the English element in Britain over Britain. The British Empire was lost for a variety of reasons but the main reason was that sovereignty could not be transferred to its many conquered dominions. It remained always in London as though permanently closed and guarded in a castle completely isolated from the rest of the world’

   But one thing does remain from the British Empire: 70 English-speaking states scattered geographically from the north of Scotland to the south of Australia. The amazing thing about them is that none of them are completely sovereign. The 10 provinces of Canada are under the sovereign power of a parliament in Ottawa itself under a representative of the queen. The 50 states of America have constitutionally limited sovereignty as does the government in Washington. The governments of New Zealand and the 6 states of Australia are under the sovereignty of the crown in Britain. The three states of Britain, England, Wales and Scotland, are not fully sovereign because they are also under a parliament exercising the sovereignty of the crown.The Republic of Ireland appears to be the only English-speaking state fully sovereign although it is subject to the European Union government in Brussels.

   We are now in a postnational period of history. If nationalism no longer works and the 70 English-speaking states are not fully sovereign nations because they were all once parts of the British Empire, why should they not be politically unified in a great global union of states all speaking the same language and all with common political and legal customs? One principle of such a union would be that they be united again by a central government, as they  once were during the British Empire. The other principle would be that they yield to a central government a few of their sovereign powers which they once yielded completely during the British Empire which kept total sovereignty for itself locked up tight in London.

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