Mr. Gandhi, the man with a remarkable vision. I had a discussion with him since I have been here and I think I don't know any person in the world who has got a better vision of what we need to do to save the planet and save human society. Mrs Gandhi, distinguished chief justices and judges, I am honoured to be here with you and, most of all, the children and young people of City Montessori School. I as a young man in Houston, Texas and four of my children attended Mark Sawyer School. I wish it had been like this, this part of school, but it was not. I am not complaining, but I am saying that they missed out on what you are getting which is probably the best education that children and young people are getting anywhere; and it’s an honour to speak to you and be with you. A lot of you have helped me with my workshop and I appreciate all that you have done there and the discussion I have had with you, young people, you are so bright and you have such a good vision yourself about the future and I hope you will keep that.
I am going to say something that I think that almost everybody has said one way or the other and that is that this is all about you - the children, the young people of the world. I won't be here when we get to the answer of the big question now that confronts all humanity and that is, are we going to survive? Is our way to life going to survive, is the planet as we know it going to survive; it's a big question, it's a valid question. We have to be blind, deaf and dumb not to recognize that this is a question about our time and what are the things I'm going to speak about briefly and then I'll talk about. What we can do about our condition in this planet is the right by trial by jury because I am a trial lawyer and I am also president of an organization called 'One World Now'. I want to talk a minute about jury service because you young people one of these days, I hope, you have the opportunity to be lawyer, an advocate before a jury or serve on the jury. I think the right to trial by jury is one of the great things that the world's ever know. As a matter of fact, James Madison, if you know a little bit about American history, one of our presidents, at the time of the framing of the new constitution said "Right to trial by jury is the cornerstone of liberty". Why is this? Because jury service involves everybody. The people who serve on the jury, those who get the benefit from it. It is a great protection for the unfortunate, for those in our society who are not powerful and are powerless. The judges are all wonderful judges I know, and they try to do their best with the best intentions. But being judges, they get so involved in cases on a day-to-day basis that they get become jaded. In comes a fresh jury, people of your community and they get a different perspective. They are not afraid to stand in there and do what's right for the person that's gone on trial or for the issues that are on trial and I am proud to say that in the United States, Australia, two or three provinces in Canada, those are the only places in the world today where you get the right of trial by a jury in several cases. Now, how did the right to trial by a jury come about, let me just give you a brief and quick history and that is that in the fifteenth century Stephen Langton and John Lilburne stood before King John and they said "King John, we want certain rights" and achieved that in a document you may well know of as Magna Carta and one of those rights was the right to trial by a jury and that was the first time, first recorded time in history that we hear of a trial by jury. I know in past times, in Roman's times, Greek's time, they had similar kind of situations where citizens would judge each other, but this was the first time it was documented as the right to trial by jury. Now it pertained primarily to criminal trials but since soon after they got those rights in the Magna Carta it included trial by jury in civil cases.

But something happened in a wrong way in England and I am sorry to say, I do not know why I am sorry to say that insurance companies became strong in England that they abandoned the right to trial by jury to civil cases. Now England does not have it. They have no right to trial by jury to settle cases. But fortunately before all that came about, when America wrote the Constitution of the United States in 1789, they included the right to trial but it actually came in the amendments later in the 7th amendment- the right of trial by jury in federal cases - cases administered by the United States of America. And the states all began to follow suit and their constitutions included a clause of right of trial by jury in both criminal and civil cases and it was a fundamental right of all citizens that we have had ever since. I have tried many cases and I have seen how it works- in wonderful way it works and I think it brings about a sense of justice that you could hardly find anywhere. Well you may say well how do we get this right to trial by jury, why we do not have it here, we don't have it in most countries, only in United States and a handful of provinces in Canada and Australia. How do we get it? Well, it brings in demand. One of the primary reasons I came to this symposium here because I want to advocate that we must have world government and I was proud to hear former Mr. Justice Qureshi when he spoke a few minutes ago and he said "we must have one single government of all humankind." And that's what I am here about.

And the way to do that I think is through a governmental system, a system that is democratized, that is empowered to do things that we must do in order to save our environment, in order to stop war, stop this crazy idea of spending over one trillion dollars a year on war and arms and on killing each other. Can you imagine if somebody came from outer space and looked down upon planet earth and said "These people are crazy. They spend over a trillion dollars a year trying to kill each other." Does that make common sense, you young people, does it make sense to you. Of course not. And you say yourself "What happened, all my fathers and grand fathers and great grand fathers, why did not they do something about it?" Well, I tell you it is time to do something about it or it’s going to be too late, too late.

Then we have on this planet everyday, when I get up and look out of the window, sun is up and I know that 30,000 little children are going to die this day before the sun sets because they did not have enough food and they died of diseases that were preventable and that's a disgrace. I am apologizing for being a human being, I mean a man of my age that still exists on this planet. We all owe you young people an apology, we all ought to do something about it and do it now.

Then when we talk about human rights and then of course, the environment. All of you have seen probably Al Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth', and if you have not seen it you will get it either on the website or his book. 'Inconvenient Truth' because he really tells us the truth about the condition of the environment and a lot of big corporations still try to say on the other side, "Well we are not sure there is such a thing as global warming that's causes by human beings, may be just a natural thing." I am telling you now global warming problems we have in the world are caused by us and they are dangerous. The future of this world is very unpredictable at this time and a lot of people say along with Al Gore and Sanders that we are coming to a tipping point by about 2015 and if we do not do something very drastic by then, then it will be too late. And you have heard all this before so I am not going to dwell on it. But I would just like to say that the way we'd like to secure the right to trial by jury and a government that can do something about these serious problems on our planet, it is through Article 109 of the United Nations Charter and most of you may not know what that is, but we have been talking about it here at this Symposium and it simply says that two-third vote of the General Assembly can call for a Charter review conference. And I hope you young people are going to be interested in that and may be when you have mock UN proceedings that you'll also have a mock Charter review conference. I talked about changing the UN Charter to make it stronger, to eliminate the single nation veto which is despicable and that is one of the reasons it has not been the kind of institution we wanted it to be. And I talked about how to build a legislating body that is directly elected by the people and how to also build various agencies of that government who can take care of these problems of global warming, human rights, hunger and poverty and war and all the problems I mentioned earlier. We can create that kind of an institution, it just takes the will to do it and I can see that the day is coming when we will all stand together holding each other's hands and saying, regardless of who you are, what race you are, what colour you are, what religion you believe in, we are all going to stand together and have one world government - a government that is moved by the people, for the people, of the people.

In closing, I'd just like to say that if we can do this, then we can create a system of justice, a world system of justice - United Nations courts at the trial level, at the appellate level, the Supreme Court of the United Nations. Courts then get ready to have the right to trial by jury for people who want to have the right to trial by jury. In some cases it may not be appropriate to have trial by jury, but in most cases I think it's the best way for each person to know that justice has been gotten by the people who were seeking it.

I want to thank the City Montessori School and Mr. Gandhi for inviting me to be here and in closing I hope that if I have the chance to meet you to discuss further I will be glad to. We have a website www.oneworldnow.com and we have a paper that's been published in the booklet about the speeches that have been made here and we have proposed a new United Nations Charter. We are not saying that this is the way it should be, it is just something to start a formal looking process particularly among you young people about your future. Look at it and you can say- we do not agree with this, we do not agree with that, but at least talk about it. Get it to the front of your mind and start talking about doing something about all these terrible problems.

May God bless you.