Copyright 113006 by Home Rule Globally, 18940-2401

An introduction to a global constitution might include some “common ground” cosmology. Three factors: [a] direction of allocation of authority; [b] motivation of leaders; and [c] size of constituency affect how the global institutional matrix modifies the intermittent shifts between growth modes and sustainability modes. Fascist nations have stressed the “growth” mode but a shift to “sustainability mode” is needed for effectiveness of a world parliament.

Environmentalists, ecologists, political scientists, psychologists, and others have noted that trauma tends to stimulate a shift [sometimes called a panarchic shift] from growth mode to sustainability mode. Panarchic federalism might erupt with significant suddenness if there were appropriate trauma stimulating the shift to sustainability mode of relationships. Many scholars focus significantly upon prolongation of gradual trends instead of appreciating that generalists have noted the drastic transformations that might occur during any of the “jumps” of an evolutionary process. Panarchic federalists recognize that federalization might be relatively sudden instead of as gradual as connoted by some scholars.

Allocation of authority upwardly from the sovereign individual is appropriate among mature adults, but not toddlers, whose inexperience requires greater downwardly directed authority. Many mature adults altruistically volunteer to serve terms on a local board of a club or church. Such “servant leadership” motivation differs greatly from that of the “politician” seeking greater power and wealth. The Robert K. Greenleaf Center has taught thousands on each of six continents that ambitions for power and/or wealth are essentially insatiable additions. Commitment to servant leadership enhances hopes for individual happiness more than prolongation of an insatiable addiction for power and/or wealth.

Moreover, servant leadership is profitable. Global productivity in the 21st century might be several trillion dollars per year greater than it might have been if the dominating leadership patterns of the 19th century had been prolonged.

Such increase in servant leadership can also be described as “scuttling the politicians”. Humanity might become more proficient in its process of “scuttling the politicians” addicted to power and wealth by launching a Supra-National Federation. Possibly it will be merely supplemental to an ongoing treaty system. However, by governing individuals and other entities instead of merely relying upon threats to coerce sovereign nations under the dominance patterns of the treaty system, it might drastically reorganize the world. Panarchic federalism stresses the potentialities for empowering neighborhoods and decreasing the external clout of remote bureaucracies.

Sizeologists recognize that leaders of giant constituencies tend to increase the budgets and power of remote bureaucracies, thus functioning, not as a servant leader, but like a “politician”. Such label is applicable without regard to whether the governance entity is a club, industrial enterprise, nonprofit, church, or government. 

Since human slavery was first invented, some advances in civilization can be interpreted as “scuttling the politicians” in various ways with hopes for further scuttling by enhancement of servant leadership during the early decades of the 21st century. Any parent who has coped with the “top-down decentralism” of guiding an adolescent to assume greater responsibilities while complying with parental guidance can appreciate that “top-down decentralism” can be useful. Panarchic federalism notes the potentialities for federalization expediting empowerment of neighborhoods. The marketability of federalism might be thus enhanced.