This article is about World Constituent Assemblies of 1968 & 1977 and related events. For Constituent assembly, see Constituent assembly.
World Constitutional Convention
Date
August 27 – September 12, 1968 (1968-08-27 – 1968-09-12)
Venue
Theater Hall of Congress Kursaal, Interlaken, Switzerland
City Hall of Wolfach, Germany
Also known as
World Constituent Assembly (WCA)
First World Constituent Assembly
Cause
World Constitutional Convention call
Motive
world peace, World constitution, democratic federal world government
Outcome
Constitution for the Federation of Earth
The World Constitutional Convention (WCC), also known as the World Constituent Assembly (WCA) or the First World Constituent Assembly, took place in Interlaken, Switzerland and Wolfach, Germany, 1968.[1] The convention aimed to foster global cooperation and world peace through the development of a World constitution and establishment of a democratic federal world government.[2][3][4]
The initiative to convene the convention was led by World Constitution Coordinating Committee, who sought support from notable individuals around the world. The "Call to all nations," an appeal signed by prominent figures, urged countries to send delegates to Geneva for the historic World Constitutional Convention.[5] Several Nobel laureates were among the notable signatories of the call.[6][7] Other notable figures such as Edward Condon, Edris Rice-Wray Carson, and Martin Luther King Jr. endorsed it as well.
Hundreds of participants from various countries attended the convention in 1968, where a proposed constitution was drafted.[2][8][9] The World Committee for a World Constitutional Convention, subsequently renamed the World Constitution and Parliament Association, later organized a Second World Constituent Assembly in Innsbruck, Austria, in 1977.[10] During the 1977 assembly, the delegates adopted the "Constitution for the Federation of Earth," commonly known as the 'Earth Constitution'.[11][12]
After its adoption, the WCPA issued a call for ratification, urging nations and peoples of Earth to endorse the Earth Constitution. Copies of the proposed Earth Constitution were sent to various entities, including the United Nations, national governments, and universities, seeking their support and cooperation in the ratification process.[13] The proposed Earth Constitution has never been ratified by any country.[14]
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