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(2) The law of nations shall be founded on a federation of free states.
(3) The law of world citizenship shall respect "Universal Hospitality" conditions.
Kant defined "Universal Hospitality" to mean unrestricted global free movement.
Post-WW I, the League of Nations failed to prevent war. So did Kellogg-Briand. Signed by America, Germany France, Britain, Italy, Japan, and nine other nations in August 1928, it promised wars would no longer resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them."
Parties violating this mandate "should be denied the benefits furnished by this treaty."
The 1950 Nuremberg Principles defined crimes against peace to include:
"(i) Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances; (and)(ii) Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the acts mentioned under (i)."
Signed in June 1945, the UN Charter failed "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war...."
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