International Executive
World super-state to include international executive adequate teo enforce unchallengeable authority on every commonwealth member[edit]
"Some form of a world super-state must needs be evolved, in whose favor all the nations of the world will have willingly 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. Such a state will have to include within its orbit an international executive adequate to enforce supreme and unchallengeable authority on every recalcitrant member of the commonwealth..."
- (Shoghi Effendi, World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 40-41)
International Executive--A Step Leading to Bahá'í World Government[edit]
"As regards the International Executive referred to by the Guardian in his 'Goal of a New World Order', it should be noted that this statement refers by no means to the Bahá'í Commonwealth of the future, but simply to that world government which will herald the advent and lead to the final establishment of the World Order of Bahá'u'lláh. The formation of this International Executive, which corresponds to the executive head or board in present-day national governments, is but a step leading to the Bahá'í world government of the future, and hence should not be identified with either the institution of the Guardianship or that of the International House of Justice."
- (From a letter written on behalf of the Guardian to an individual believer, March 17, 1934, in Lights of Guidance, no. 1077)
Note[edit]
- The single reference to "international executive" is in World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, at the bottom of p. 40.