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22.18
Legal History 1920 - 2006
  
     
  Following the Declaration of Independence over one hundred and fifty years before the end of World War I, the next most significant legal even in human history was the formation of the League of Nations.  
  The League of Nations was the forerunner of the United Nations and in many respects had a number of superior aspects to the United Nations- most notably the absence of the Catholic Church as a political influence within the halls of power.  
 
 Key legal concept: League of Nations (1919)
Architect
US President Woodrow Wilson and leaders at Paris Peace Conference 1919
Main influence
 Philosophy of Immanuel Kant (18th C)
Idea
 A general association of nations must formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike. Precursor to the United Nations.

 
  Unfortunately, many people believing the words of their war time leaders cam to see the League of Nations as an abject failure, when in fact it was a dedicated secular organisation seeking to be free of the powers and intimidations of religious, business and banking forces that caused World War I and other previous wars.  
  In the end, the memory of the League of Nations is forever tarnished by its deliberate attack to enable a corrupted version to be born in the United Nations in 1948, an organisation contrary to trying to curb the forces that promoted division, bloodsheed and poverty, both embraced and invited those forces to become a central part of its fabric.  
  Ever since, the United Nations has appeared helpless of its own behaviour to permit genocide after genocide and the deterioration of living standards across a number of regions, not the least being Africa.  
     
 
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