Too often politicians, lobbyists and the media advocate policies that do not reflect the wishes of the people.

Here is a case in point – whereby the world has indicated that it is ready for our species as a whole to take control of its opportunities and responsibilities:

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/btunitednationsra/355.php?l

A respected American once made the following observation about this:

“Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment…. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions… But I also know that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind…. As new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.”

Thomas Jefferson