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Poisonous snakes can be "de-fanged" so that they can be safe among humans. Transforming anything so that it is less hazardous can be called "de-fanging". During the 20th century, nations were excessively dangerous. Defanging nations is probably necessary for human survival into the 23rd century. The globalization of the 20th century conformed to the UN system, thus stimulating many fears of the UN. Now that a UN army has been proposed, it is necessary to "de-fang" not only all nations but also the UN itself. Most world federalists are centralists seeking to transfer many of the powers of the nation to the UN. For more than 60 years, the Ewbanks have been seeking decentralist-federalist transformations quite remote from either the UN system or any centralized world federation. Their concepts are now extremely more credible than in earlier decades.

Each powerful nation has an effective veto concerning a Proposal for a Supra-National Federation [SNF]. Home Rule Globally contends that a SNF can be attained easily as soon as there is global agreement concerning three matters: [a] how to amend a SNF constitution; [b] allocation of power within the global parliament; and [c] key personnel for the first term of administration of the SNF Decisions about many controversial issues might better be postponed for the parliament. Dr. Robert Muller encourages study of all Proposals for a SNF. Dr. Muller, a speaker at the 5th Annual Global Assembly of HRG, tries to be a "generic federalist" without advocating exclusively any explicit Proposal at this time. The Ewbanks try to maintain a similar stance. Desirably about 60 to 100 years after Ratification Day for the first SNF constitution, a more democratic procedure will replace the first federalization. Many of today’s problems are traceable to the success of reformers of earlier centuries in excessively shackling modernization of government.

Since 1994, the Ewbanks, through a think-tank Home Rule Globally, and some of its projects such as Contest Appraising Democratic Emancipating World Government [CADEWG] have aspired to increase the number of people contributing to the creativity of Proposals for such SNF. During and since WW II they had similar aspirations through groups such as World Helm and Peace Now Movement. HRG and the Ewbanks contend that nations can more effectively fulfill their proper functions without any of national militarism, national monetarism, or national political parties. The troublesome deficiencies in results in more than 50 years of UN activities have not been attributable to the smallness of the UN Budget, but to its structural practice of futilely attempting to coerce a nation as a nation into good behavior, as inherently required by any treaty organization. Dr. Muller, while working for the UN, was unable to advocate a SNF. Similarly, Dr. Michael W. Doyle cannot advocate a SNF because of his employment at the UN. However, his April 4, 2001 speech acknowledges that the UN is a pygmy struggling within international anarchy. Hence, such speech is the first document from the UN placed on the HRG website www.dffcs.org.

The Contest Appraising Democratic Emancipating World Government [CADEWG] seeks to be an independent entity striving for obsolescence through world federation. A world federation could start under CADEWG procedures only if the same Proposal were ratified by nations constituting 67% of Triad Power and 76% of the nations. Each federated nation might retain its sovereignty for purposes of voting in the UN, so that the "Dual Systems Era" would last until each holdout nation voluntarily joined the SNF, which could then be merged into the UN. Some small nations have been displeased with the "creeping uniformity" [e.g. globalization of mass media] and want to promote the cherishing of global diversity. Such small nations might encourage the explorations by CADEWG, and join in a General Assembly Resolution recognizing CADEWK as an independent entity.

So long as the treaty system prolongs anachronisms such as national militarism, national monetarism, and national political parties, each nation will have far less effective sovereignty than is attainable by abolishing such dinosaurs. Imagine how the world would now be if, by happenstance, each national government monopolized production of clothing and food. In such a hypothetical situation, a proposal for fair competition concerning production of food and clothing would encounter some resistance. However, society would benefit from the replacement of the monopolies by fair competition. The wealthy Establishments benefited more than the slaves from the abolition of slavery. Similarly, national Establishments will benefit immensely from the fair competition as regards militarism and monetarism. Each nation can achieve greater true sovereignty and opportunities to strengthen national culture under a decentralized federation than under the existing UN system.