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Regarding the principle of affected interests, the distinguished political scientist, Robert A. Dahl states, “it forces us to ask whether there is not after all some wisdom in the half-serious comment of a friend in Latin America who said that his people should be allowed to participate in our elections, for what happens in the politics of the United States is bound to have profound consequences for his country. Do not dismiss his jest as an absurdity. In a world where we all have a joint interest in survival, the real absurdity is the absence of any system of government where that joint interest is effectively represented.” -- Dahl, Robert A., After the Revolution? Authority in a Good Society. Yale University, 1990 (page 51). "Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of public authority endowed with a wideness of powers, structure and means of the same proportions: that is, of public authority which is in a position to operate in an effective manner on a world-wide basis. The moral order itself, therefore, demands that such a form of public authority be established." -- Pope John XXIII, Pacem in Terris (St. Paul's edition, 1963), p.36. World Citizens Party members (left to right) Jock Forbes, Eva Gordon, and Bob Brainerd deliver the Political Designation Petition to the Elections Division of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on July 20, 2004.
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