Many segments of the criminal justice system seek to frighten individuals into obedience to rules and guidelines. The term “criminal justice system” can be employed for such “imposed threats of punishment”. Whether it is the family, church, labor union, chamber of commerce, lodge, or government at any level that threatens the punishment has trivial significance. Such criminal justice system can be contrasted with “voluntarism” involving an individual’s seeking individual integrity and fitting into his/her concepts about ethical behavior. Such “self-government” by those who have been “self-liberators” can earn the label of “civilized adults”. This term has pertinence only to adults having the wealth, education. housing, sustenance, etc. needed for “self-government” and thus excludes those who are incarcerated, intoxicated, drug addicts, habitual criminals, terrorists, retarded, senile, adolescents, darlings, children, toddlers, and infants. No requirement concerning literacy, instruction in schools, etc. as sometimes stressed by the educational establishments is specified for a “civilized adult”. The opportunities for self-learning in the 21st century differ radically from those that prevailed as recently as 600 years ago. Home Rule Globally contends that the “mob psychology” so feared by some writers about political science is not applicable to the “common sense” of the “grass roots” of the 21st century. The “self-governors” labeled as “civilized adults” have sufficient “sense of justice” and “social responsibility” in the 21st century to not be the dangerous menace portrayed as “mob mania” by some earlier political scientists.

Traditional international law is a part of the criminal justice system, and seeks to frighten nations into behaving because of threats for punishment of misbehaving nations. The Kellogg-Briand pact was a treaty doing the most possible within the treaty system for abolishing war. This widely executed treaty threatened to punish both nations and individuals for aggressive military actions Some Japanese war-lords violated the Kellogg-Briand pact by invading Manchuria in 1930, leading to their hanging in 1948. The treaty system has thus demonstrated its effectiveness in providing punishment for selected violators of the rules. The International Criminal Court also seeks to punish terrorists who violate the rules about civilized warfare.

A supra-national federation might effectively ban all Civilized Warfare prior to the 22nd century, but not within the next fortnight. Such a federation might appropriately regulate all entities possessing military weapons or trained for group violence. Home Rule Globally is a tiny think-tank evaluating global policy about a global constitution for a world parliament. Home Rule Globally stresses the desirability of minimizing the “criminal justice system” and stressing the effectiveness of “voluntarism” in the long term minimization of military hostilities.

In the process of becoming a “civilized adult” a human experiences the development of a sense of justice, social responsibility, and a desire for individual integrity. Strengthening such “voluntarism” perspectives is more important than seeking to select from among the factions of experts contending that their package of punishments for violations of regulations could win global ratification. Possibly an introduction to a global constitution should feature a package of “Queries” not intended to stimulate “guilt” but to inspire efforts both individually and in groups joyfully to seek challenging aspirations that plausibly might be attainable within a few decades. The joy is derived from the seeking even when frustrations yield less than desired achievements.

All theological doctrines involving punishment after death, even those stressing the repulsive memories by acquaintances, can be deemed a part of the criminal justice system. Criminologists know that prisons tend to educate some to learn how “not to be caught” as an appropriate aspiration.

Administrators of various criminal justice systems, such as parents seeking to minimize fist-fights between siblings sometimes use inappropriate criteria. By condemning “aggression” instead of “violence” it sometimes enhance skills in deceiving the authorities about who stimulated the violence. Recognizing that “violence is the enemy” enhances perspectives of voluntarism.

Technology evolves. Sometimes there are long gaps between applying to the military the “fringe” benefits of evolving technology within the civilian realm. Only when fair competition prevails among competing suppliers can there be adequate hope for prompt militarization of peaceful inventions. Without such promptness, there can be troublesome hazards that a terrorist might have a significant technological advantage over the establishments. Hence there might be need for an ongoing global “military-industrial complex” for enhancing the fair competition among an adequate number of fairly competing non-governmental Rebellion Deterrence Corps.

Although humanity will continue to need military services and monetary services, there is no necessity for such services to be provided by governmental entities when there are potentialities for governments providing appropriate regulation for maintaining fair competition among an adequate number of non-governmental competitors. Any monopoly tends to breed the seeds for its own death. The hellishness of any oligopoly is that the fluctuations in the percentage of market share vary sufficiently to enhance the durability of the oligarchic system. When governments regulate appropriate limits concerning market share as compared with the running decade data, the market tends to be automatically self-regulating. Many entities have a preference to avoid the complexities of fission and/or detailed regulation by governments. Governmental regulation is best when it simulates voluntary adaptations so that threats of criminal punishment are rarely needed.

Some historians interpret the evolution of Quakerism as a reaction against the Cromwellian emphasis upon submissive obedience to an abundance of rules as distinguished from the Quaker stimulation of pragmatic blending of conflicting guidelines. The Cromwellian puritans stressed the fear of punishment. The George Fox Quakers stimulated individuals seeking to joyfully respond to appropriate Queries. Instead of being perennially static, the Queries had the flexibility of potential changes by individuals and/or groups.

Home Rule Globally encourages each human to invent every year a new Query pertinent to the reorganization of the world. Such widespread participation in the process of questioning how the experts have been managing society might eventually stimulate the discernment needed for prolonging civilization for a few centuries. The trends of recent decades can be deemed so dismal as to provide troublesome possibilities for an imminent collapse of civilization. Awareness of such hazards is desirably combined with realistic hope that nations aggregating the overwhelming clout of the world might launch a Supra-National Federation soon enough. Stimulating interest in widespread writing of queries about reorganization of the world might expedite the desired launching of a voluntary Supra-National Federation.

Scores of “illustrative examples:” of proposals for a Supra-National Federation have been published. Study of a plurality of such proposals is encouraged by Home Rule Globally because of its realistic hope that the overwhelming clout of sovereign nations can voluntarily ratify some “yet-to-be-invented “proposal. The approach of encouraging individuals to seek self-integrating approaches toward the challenges of Queries has not been adequately explored. If a Proposal thus communicated voluntarism in responding joyfully to the challenge of Queries, then it might enhance hopes for the launching of a Supra-National Federation soon enough to prolong civilization for at least a few centuries. Such Query approach toward a global constitution exemplifies how Home Rule Globally is a world federalist organization alerting the world to some of the secular messages of Quakerism while respecting whatever might be the contemporary distribution of theological perspectives, and an avoidance of any proselytizing about the religious messages of the Religious Society of Friends.

In offering illustrative examples of Queries for various groups, Home Rule Globally seeks primarily to stimulate individuals and groups to seek wise discernment about the sustainability of civilization. No effort is made to manipulate others to adopt a particular package of doctrines because Home Rule Globally encourages each individual and each group to contemplate about the Query:

 What can I do to enhance hopes for increasing the freedom of choice about everything for every civilized adult?
 Have I participated in prolonged discussions about global problems and what humans can do about them?
 Have I shown appropriate respect for the super-isolationists whose perspectives help to decrease the hazard that a world parliament might be from the beginning excessively tyrannical?
 Am I willing to be labeled as a Globe-Libber seeking both liberty for all civilized adults and global governing of all entities concerning the few matters needing a world parliament?.