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#11003 (02-16-62) Gives Government the power to take over all airports and aircraft.<br />

#11004 (02-16-62) Gives Government the power to take over housing and financial<br />

institutions, to relocate communities, to erect new housing with public funds, to declare<br />

areas to be abandoned because they are unsafe, and to establish new locations for the<br />

population.<br />

#11005 (02-16-62) Gives Government the power to take over all railroads, inland<br />

waterways, and public storage facilities.<br />

#11051 (09-27-62) Authorization for Executives Orders to be put into effect during times<br />

of international, economic, or financial crisis, and for the Office of Emergency Planning<br />

to carry them out.<br />

#11310 (10-11-66) Gives Government the power to use all prisons to administer medical<br />

treatment, for mass feeding, and housing.<br />

#11490 (10-28-69) was amended by the 36-page Executive Order #11921 (6-11-76),<br />

which consolidated the following Executive Orders: #10312, #10346, #10997-#11005,<br />

#11087-#11095, and #11310. It assigned emergency preparedness functions to most<br />

Federal Departments and Agencies to assure the “continuity of the Federal Government.”<br />

On the heels of these provisions that would initiate martial law, a meeting arranged by<br />

Nelson Rockefeller, was held from April 5-8, 1976 in Philadelphia with representatives from the<br />

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, the League of Women Voters, the National<br />

Council of Churches, National Urban League, NAACP, United Auto Workers, Common Cause,<br />

and various other University professors and governmental experts, to study our present<br />

Constitution to see if it could be modernized and improved.<br />

On January 30, 1976, came the announcement of “A Declaration of Interdependence,” a<br />

document which endorsed a one-world government. The announcement was made at a meeting<br />

held at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, which was sponsored by the World Affairs Council<br />

(and had stemmed from a five point program they had announced in September, 1975). The<br />

meeting was funded with a $100,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Bicentennial Committee. The<br />

document, written by CFR member Henry Steele Comsmager began with this sentence: “Two<br />

centuries ago our forefathers brought forth a new nation; now we must join with others to bring<br />

forth a new world order.” It was signed by 24 U.S. Senators and 80 U.S. Representatives, such<br />

as: Sen. Alan Cranston (D-CA, CFR), Sen. Jacob Javits (R-NY), Sen. Hubert Humphrey D-MN),<br />

Sen. George McGovern (D-SD), Sen. William Proxmire (D-WI), Sen. Charles Mathias (CFR),<br />

Sen. Claiborne Pell (CFR), Rep. Paul Simon, Rep. Patricia Schroder, Rep. Louis Stokes, Rep.<br />

Les Aspin (Secretary of Defense under Clinton), Rep. John B. Anderson (R-IL), and Rep. Morris<br />

K. Udall (D-AZ).<br />

This document went through further drafts, and in 1984, it was presented by the Committee<br />

on a Constitutional System (CCS) as an alternative to the existing Constitution. One of the<br />

group’s Board members, James MacGregor Burns, a history professor, said: “If we are to turn<br />

the founders upside down ... we must directly confront the constitutional structure they erected.”

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