On Humanizing Secular Law--A Look to the Future
Helen Novak and Steven Hiller

We are ready with our thinking,
with our doing as we rise
to behold in us a glory
coming from a new surmise.
We're no longer men held captive:
It is Law we'll humanize.
Joy is coursing in our blood-stream,
it is shining in our eyes.
We're no longer men held captive:
it is Law we'll humanize.

In our treatise, Ecumenical Humanism, we have suggested changes in international law for offenses which cannot be dealt with by individual nations. We now differentiate both national and international laws according to whether they apply to (1) the fact and/or endangerment of early death and untenable pain or to (2) the rest of legal process.The first category of Law cited above we will term Law of the First Foil, and the second, common category will be called Law of the Second Foil.

It is at this point that we introduce the Prime Law of Planet Earth, which reads as follows:
The Law of the First Foil both international and national must in all respects and as soon as possible be made adequate to provide for the safety welfare (increasingly long life span and freedom from dire pain) of the citizens of the Planet.

The purely social structuring of Earth is to be left to individual nations and made responsive to their productive, technical and cultural components in keeping with their material capacities as controlled by the Law of the Second Foil.

The economic structuring of Earth is to be worked out first in accordance with the Prime Law as given,and, after that, regulated by the Law of the Second Foil.

We would like to add one more statement to the section on Prime Law. It reads:
Every Citizen of the Planet is to be responsible for upholding the Prime Law and identifying it with his/her assured safety and well-being. Any breach of the Prime Law should be considered a Capital Offense with appropriate sanctions. Conversely, conscious upholding of the Prime Law is an expression of human love extending to all peoples of the Planet, hence represents the humanization of Secular Law.


P.S.
Steven Hiller and Helen Novak

Now there is a new song in our midst. We have a new glad tiding and we want to make it work for us everywhere. There is a new Law on the Planet and there will be a great deal of happiness to all who uphold it and serve it. We do not wish to have many other directives in our societal realm, but we are totally satisfied that if this great transformation is going to benefit all human life in our Race it must become our illustrious way of living.

We have many good deeds to do and much of the past to avoid. We must make of these deeds a tribute and a welcome to this, our great legal edifice. That is the song of songs for our new day. May it become the Truth which serves all men as soon as possible and into Earth's future.


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