May 23. On this date in 1955, the Bahá'í International Community submitted "Proposals to the United Nations for Charter Revision" to the U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld.

 

May 23. On this date in 1955, the Bahá'í International Community submitted "Proposals to the United Nations for Charter Revision" to the U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, noting...

The Bahá'í­ concept of world order is defined in these terms: A world Super-State in whose favor all the nations of the world will have ceded every claim to make war, certain rights to impose taxation and all rights to maintain armaments, except for purposes of maintaining internal order within their respective dominions. This State will have to include an International Executive adequate to enforce supreme and unchallengeable authority on very recalcitrant member of the Commonwealth; a World Parliament whose members are elected by the peoples in their respective countries and whose election is confirmed by their respective governments: a Supreme Tribunal whose judgment has a binding effect even in cases where the parties concerned have not voluntarily agreed to submit their case to its consideration.