716 ' T. C. CHAMBERLIN 
(2) Shall take control, in the same sense, of such straits, channels, 
and lesser waterways as are essential to free international commerce; 
(3) Shall exercise the right of pre-eminent domain on the land 
so far as required in providing avenues of intercourse between dis- 
tinct nationalities, and shall have power to establish, maintain, and 
operate such thoroughfares; and | 
(4) Shall have all the powers requisite to carry into effect the 
purposes herein set forth. 
The ruling bodies of the Omninational Confederation.—Yo be 
effective, the Omninational Confederation must be fully organized 
in a way appropriate to the specific work assigned it. This is likely 
to be more nearly analogous to corporate business than to the mul- 
titudinous legislation of ordinary political governments, and so the 
function of the ruling bodies may perhaps better be shaped after 
the most approved patterns of great corporations than after those 
of political bodies, but of course different forms of organization are 
consistent with the general scheme, and the plan herewith outlined 
is merely tentative. 
It is important however here to note that the basis of the scheme, 
international commerce, makes it possible to give each nation that 
enters the Confederation a voting power in strict proportion to the 
part wt takes im international commerce. This gives not only an 
ethical basis for the conduct of the affairs of the Confederation, but 
great adaptability to the practical working of the plan as in the 
case of business corporations. Since nations are negligible that 
take no part in international commerce, either as carriers or shippers 
of commodities, all recognizable nations may participate propor- 
. tionately in the Confederation, and it thus satisfies the title Omni- 
national. 
The two factors that make up international commerce, (1) trans- 
portation and (2) commodities transported (exports and imports), 
are sufficiently different to constitute a working basis for two types 
of representatives, as also two sections of the ruling bodies, and so 
secure the well-known advantages of a bicameral organization. 
It is proposed that the several nations be represented by dele- 
gates, who shall form a Congress the function of which shall be to 
determine the general regulations that shall govern the conduct of 
