Edited sentence: After the Constitution was first approved in its substance at the Second Constituent Assembly in 1977, the WCPA also began organizing Provisional World Parliaments under the authority of Article 19 of the Constitution which allows for the development of Provisional World Government until such time as final ratification takes place under the conditions set out in Article 17.Amerasinghe of Sri Lanka and Dr.However, one organization especially did exceptional work in laying the foundations for a future democratic federal world government that can easily be erected on these foundations.Reinhart Ruge of Mexico, as Co-Presidents.Sessions of the Parliament were subsequently held in New Delhi, India, Miami, Florida, Barcelona, Spain, Malta, Bangkok, Thailand, Chennai, India, and Lucknow, India.Since the final approval of the Earth Constitution at Troia, Portugal, the document has been translated into 22 languages and distributed worldwide.Terence P.The Provisional World Parliament completed its Ninth session in Tripoli, Libya in April 2006.The WCPA also continues to work for the ratification of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth by the people and nations of Earth.The WCPA then sponsored four Constituent Assemblies of world citizens during which the Constitution for the Federation of Earth was drafted, examined, debated, modified, and further developed - in 1968 in Interlaken, Switzerland, 1977 in Innsbruck, Austria, 1979 in Columbo, Sri Lanka, and 1991 in Troia, Portugal.The World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA) was founded in 1958 by Philip and Margaret Isely of Denver, Colorado and soon joined by Dr.The first session of the Provisional World Parliament met in Brighton, England in 1982 and began the process of developing the basis for real world law (which applies to individuals) as opposed to international law (which applies only to sovereign nation-states).There is now a considerable body of high quality provisional world law that is on the web, much of which can be found in English, French, and Spanish.Under the leadership of the WCPA, hundreds of world citizens, including many international lawyers and professors, met several times to initiate the process of writing a Constitution for the Federation of Earth