APPENDIX B
As a citizen of the United States of America, the author of HIEROSOLYMA: An Eight Part Peace Proposal for Greater
Jerusalem, notes with pride that the source of his idea for the territorial arrangements contained in Parts II, IV, V,
and VI is the Constitution of the United States of America.
Article IV, Section 3, reads in part:
New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction
of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent
of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Though the Constitution of the United States certainly does not apply to other nations, this dynamic document has
nevertheless influenced the minds of people in every corner of the earth and, with God's help, will continue to do so. And
although no union exists between Israel and its proximate Arab neighbors, which is a state of affairs quite different from
the one in which the framers of the Constitution of the United States indited their formula for new combinations of
states, the urgent need for peace may nevertheless spur the people of these troubled nations to test a truly democratic idea
that is rather old -- yet never used -- in the annals of American history but quite new and revolutionary in the context of
world history.
This idea or formula, which promises to be a model for conflict-resolution among states, perhaps in the form of a new article
in the Charter of the United Nations, could very well serve as the basis whereby an international convention will establish
rules expressly recognized by all the parties to the Arab-Israeli dispute and other disputes as well.
The Charter of the United Nations guarantees the sovereign and territorial integrity of every member state, and
prohibits the United Nations Organization from interfering in the internal affairs of any member state. As a consequence,
the United Nations is standing on shaky ground whenever it tries to resolve conflicting claims between the right of self determination
of a people and the sovereignty, territorial integrity and right to conduct its internal affairs of a member state in which
the separatists reside. Article IV, Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States of America offers a legal precedent
and model for a new article of the Charter of the United Nations which would provide a means to settle such conflicting
claims between the right of self determination and the rights of a sovereign state. This, and another new article giving mandatory
jurisdiction to the International Court of Justice of all disputes between states that are unable to settle such disputes
by negotiation or any other mode of settlement, will help the United Nations Organization meet the challenges of world government
in the twenty-first century.
©Stephen M. St. John 1977, 1995 All rights reserved.
