1920 JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

a system of law which has enabled the States to live at peace
with one another except for one tragic occasion.

3. From the birth of American as a new nation to the day
of Woodrow Wilson, we relied on a system of alliance with
other nations and groups of nations to maintain international
law, but this proved unsatisfactory, being subject to the same
defects as the original inter-state alliance or Articles of Con-
federation.

4. The League of Nations which held out so much promise
failed because of our unwillingness to enter into this effort
to establish international law with the result that the League
was just as ineffective as the Articles of Confederation had
been.

5. The system of alliances and treaties following the first
world war failed to establish a stable system of world law
and so led to the great conflict.

6. The United Nations organization is at present unable to
provide for harmonious world relations because of its lack
of power to be effective.

7. The Atlantic Charter is a reversion to the old system of
alliances and treaties which can establish international law
and order only so long as the balance of power remains with
the Charter group; and

WHEREAS,, the above recited history shows that "neighboring
nations are natural enemies of each other unless their common
weakness"—the atom bomb today—"forces them to league in
a confederate republic and their constitution" governs the
differences which arise among them; and

WHEREAS, the history of Great Britain, which was formerly
made up of constantly fighting separate nations who stopped
their armed conflicts after the union of Scotland and Eng-
land, and the history of other more ancient confederate gov-
ernments all show how effective international law can be
when constitutionally established; and

WHEREAS, by their conduct and example, the American
States have shown that "societies of men" are "capable of
establishing a good government from reflection and choice"
rather than being "forever destined to depend for their
political constitutions on accident and force"; and

WHEREAS, a growing number of the United States of Amer-
ica believe that international law can be established only with