The California Resolution

In 1949 California World Federalists, led by their President Alan Cranston lobbied the California Legislature and secured a resolution which was jointly adopted by the Assembly and Senate which called for a, "...convention for the sole purpose of proposing amendment of the Constitution to expedite and insure the participation of the United States in a world federal government ... whether the proposed charter or constitution of such world federal government be presented in the form of amendments to the Charter of the United Nations, or by world constitutional convention, or otherwise; and be it further..."