WORLD ORGANIZATION BY RAYMOND L. BRIDGMAN PUBLISHED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL UNION 1905 NOTE Some of the following chapters, in more or less different form, first appeared in magazines. "The World Legislature," first of the series, was published in The Atlantic Monthly, March, 1903; "National Sovereignty Not Absolute," in The Arena, April, 1904; "The World Constitution" appeared in The New England Magazine, July, 1904; and "The World Executive," in the September number of the same periodical of the same year. "World Organization Secures World Peace" first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, September, 1904. Acknowledgment of the courtesy of the publishers of these magazines in consenting to the use of the articles in this volume is hereby gratefully made by the author. CONTENTS Finds the existing unity of mankind the condition from which the organization of the world as a single political body is sure CHAPTER II-NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY NOT ABSOLUTE Urges the point that no national sovereignty is absolute, but that only the sovereignty of mankind is absolute. CHAPTER III-THE WORLD CONSTITUTION Points out the real world constitution in the rights and rela- tions of individuals and of nations, and calls attention to a CHAPTER IV-THE WORLD LEGISLATURE Shows why the establishment of a permanent world legisla- ture in the near future seems necessary and probable for the Holds that the Hague Court of Arbitration is likely to be the foundation of a world judiciary. Forecasts the development of the world executive depart- ment and shows how germs of it have already begun to grow. Cites instances of world legislation now in practical effect. |