Chapter 3: The Peace Covenant and the International Government

   If no one wants to be combatted against, they form an agreement.  This is a foundational peace covenant that states whatever we do, we don't fight.  

   Thus, since the agreement is to not fight, it is the law, and the law must be enforced.  Having free will to break any law, there must be a force maintaining order.  Since nations in free space are equal entities, there needs to be a superior that upholds the peace covenant - the international government.

Formal Derivation:

3.1 - Definition of covenant:  a grand agreement in which people submit themselves to a common law and/or under a certain order.

Case A:  Suppose no one wishes to be combatted against.

3.2 - Supposing no one wants to test 2.3, we have a peace covenant.

   3.2.1.  Suppose no one wants to fight (no one wants to test 2.3).

   3.2.2.  Then we come to the common understanding (or agreement) that we do not fight.

   3.2.3.  This agreement is a set way to which all parties involved should adhere.

   3.2.4.  Hence, the agreement forms a new law - to not combat - to keep the peace.

   3.2.5.  Therefore, there is a peace covenant (by definition of a covenant). 

3.3 - There is to be a governing body upholding and enforcing all covenants.

   3.3.1.  For a person involved in a covenant, the covenant to which they belong defines laws they are to follow (see 3.2.2 - 3.2.4 for an example).

   3.3.2.  Human persons have free will - to follow or to break the law.

   3.3.3.  If laws are broken by someone and no logical consequence is issued, people can break the law with no repercussions.

   3.3.4.  When people can break the law without repercussions, the law is meaningless and peace can be obstructed freely.

   3.3.5.  We desire peace and justice. 

   3.3.6.  So, we must enforce every law. 

   3.3.7  This means we are to hold covenants at the highest concern (since they, by definition, define laws) by deriving and enforcing logical consequences for when they are broken.

   3.3.8.  Since, by Karma, people who are of the same standing are not to impose consequences upon another (excluding certain Karmactic reactions), there must be an authoritative governing body above the people that are involved in a covenant.

3.4 - If nations do not want to fight, there must be an international government that enforces that rule.

   3.4.1.  By the agreement to not fight, we have a peace covenant.

   3.4.2.  By 3.3, there is a governing body upholding our peace covenant.

   3.4.3.  By the principle of Karma, nations (considered to be of equal standing) are to not have authority over other nations.

   3.4.4.  The governing body, as it is the authority over the nations, a) must not be a nation and b) must be above all nations.

   3.4.5  There is to be an international government governing the peace covenant.

N.B.  This does not mean that the international government need have an army; but if the international government derives the need for war (as the only logical consequence that could possibly remedy a situation), then nations are to aid in accomplishing the mission behind the war.