Development of the State

71:8.1The only sa­cred fea­ture of any hu­man gov­ern­ment is the di­vi­sion of state­hood into the three do­mains of ex­ec­u­tive, leg­isla­tive, and ju­di­cial func­tions. The uni­verse is ad­min­is­tered in ac­cor­dance with such a plan of seg­re­ga­tion of func­tions and au­thor­ity. Aside from this di­vine con­cept of ef­fec­tive so­cial reg­u­la­tion or civil gov­ern­ment, it mat­ters lit­tle what form of state a peo­ple may elect to have pro­vided the cit­i­zenry is ever pro­gress­ing to­ward the goal of aug­mented self-con­trol and in­creased so­cial ser­vice. The in­tel­lec­tual keen­ness, eco­nomic wis­dom, so­cial clev­er­ness, and moral stam­ina of a peo­ple are all faith­fully re­flected in state­hood.

71:8.2The evo­lu­tion of state­hood en­tails prog­ress from level to level, as fol­lows:

71:8.31. The cre­ation of a three­fold gov­ern­ment of ex­ec­u­tive, leg­isla­tive, and ju­di­cial branches.

71:8.42. The free­dom of so­cial, po­lit­i­cal, and re­li­gious ac­tiv­i­ties.

71:8.53. The abo­li­tion of all forms of slav­ery and hu­man bond­age.

71:8.64. The abil­ity of the cit­i­zenry to con­trol the levy­ing of taxes.

71:8.75. The es­tab­lish­ment of uni­ver­sal edu­ca­tion—learn­ing ex­tended from the cra­dle to the grave.

71:8.86. The proper ad­just­ment be­tween lo­cal and na­tional gov­ern­ments.

71:8.97. The fos­ter­ing of sci­ence and the con­quest of dis­ease.

71:8.108. The due rec­og­ni­tion of sex equal­ity and the co-or­di­nated func­tion­ing of men and women in the home, school, and church, with spe­cial­ized ser­vice of women in in­dus­try and gov­ern­ment.

71:8.119. The elim­i­na­tion of toil­ing slav­ery by ma­chine in­ven­tion and the sub­se­quent mas­tery of the ma­chine age.

71:8.1210. The con­quest of di­alects—the tri­umph of a uni­ver­sal lan­guage.

71:8.1311. The end­ing of war—in­ter­na­tional ad­ju­di­ca­tion of na­tional and racial dif­fer­ences by con­ti­nen­tal courts of na­tions pre­sided over by a su­preme plan­e­tary tri­bu­nal au­to­mat­i­cally re­cruited from the pe­ri­od­i­cally re­tir­ing heads of the con­ti­nen­tal courts. The con­ti­nen­tal courts are au­thor­i­ta­tive; the world court is ad­vi­sory—moral.

71:8.1412. The world-wide vogue of the pur­suit of wis­dom—the ex­al­ta­tion of phi­los­o­phy. The evo­lu­tion of a world re­li­gion, which will presage the en­trance of the planet upon the ear­lier phases of set­tle­ment in light and life.

71:8.15These are the pre­req­ui­sites of pro­gres­sive gov­ern­ment and the ear­marks of ideal state­hood. Uran­tia is far from the re­al­iza­tion of these ex­alted ide­als, but the civ­i­lized races have made a be­gin­ning—man­kind is on the march to­ward higher evo­lu­tion­ary des­tinies.

71:8.16[Spon­sored by a Mel­chiz­e­dek of Neb­a­don.]