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The United States Department of Peace is a proposed cabinet-level department of the executive branch of the U.S. government. The original idea of a Peace Department in the United States dates back to the administration of George Washington, but has been most recently proposed by Rep. Dennis Kucinich in 2001 and formed a part of Kucinich's presidential campaign platform in 2004. Cabinet meeting on May 16, 2001. ...
Under the doctrine of the separation of powers, the executive is the branch of a government charged with implementing, or executing, the law. ...
Order: 1st President Vice President: John Adams Term of office: April 30, 1789 – March 4, 1797 Preceded by: None Succeeded by: John Adams Date of birth: February 22, 1732 Place of birth: Westmoreland, Virginia Date of death: December 14, 1799 Place of death: Mount Vernon, Virginia First Lady: Martha Washington...
Seal of the House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the Congress of the United States, the other being the Senate. ...
Dennis Kucinich Dennis John Kucinich (born October 8, 1946) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, for the 10th District of Ohio (map). ...
2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The US Department of Peace is also an independent grassrooots political movement that operates autonomously and that has continued to gain momentum after Kucinich's bid in the 2004 presidential election. The ongoing movement is co-led by Kucinich and author and speaker Marianne Williamson. This movement actively lobbies for the endorsements of congressional leaders. It has local grassroot chapters in over 200 congressional districts, and to date over 50 members of Congress have co-sponsored Kucinich's bill. Marianne Williamson is the author of A Return to Love. ...
The Kucinich proposal
In July 2001, Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich introduced Department of Peace legislation to Congress though it is unclear how similar his version of a Department of Peace would be to that of the founding fathers. The September 11 attacks several months later put the idea on hold. 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Dennis Kucinich Dennis John Kucinich (born October 8, 1946) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, for the 10th District of Ohio (map). ...
The World Trade Center on fire The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. ...
Kucinich proposed a Peace Department again (House Resolution 1673) in April 2003; the legislation then gained over 30 co-sponsors and was endorsed by groups including Amnesty International and the National Organization for Women. Highlights of the legislation include tying the budget of the department to a fixed percentage of the budget of the Defense Department and creating a "Peace Academy" parallel to the U.S. military academies. 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization with the stated purpose of promoting all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. ...
National Organization for Women (NOW) is an American feminist group founded on June 30, 1966 in Washington, D.C. by women attending the Third National Conference of the Commission on the Status of Women. ...
The United States Department of Defense, abbreviated as DoD or DOD and sometimes called the Defense Department, is a civilian Cabinet organization of the United States government. ...
Kucinich continues to energetically promote and lobby for this legislation. Williamson sometimes makes comparisons between this movement and the anti-slavery Abolition movement, or to the Woman's Suffrage movement as a demonstration of her belief of both the worthiness of this goal, and of her belief that due to its worthiness, it cannot do anything other than to eventually pass in congress. Abolition is the act of formally destroying something through legal means, either by making it illegal, or simply no longer allowing it to exist in any form. ...
The international movement for womens suffrage, led by suffragists (commonly called suffragettes), was a social, economic and political reform movement aimed at extending the suffrage (that is, the right to vote) to women, advocating equal suffrage (abolition of graded votes) rather than universal suffrage (abolition of discrimination due to...
Similar proposals in history George Washington, the first U.S. President, proposed a Department of Peace to the United States Congress in 1793; its proponents included Benjamin Banneker, Benjamin Rush, and Thomas Jefferson. Order: 1st President Vice President: John Adams Term of office: April 30, 1789 – March 4, 1797 Preceded by: None Succeeded by: John Adams Date of birth: February 22, 1732 Place of birth: Westmoreland, Virginia Date of death: December 14, 1799 Place of death: Mount Vernon, Virginia First Lady: Martha Washington...
Seal of the President of the United States The President of the United States is the head of state of the United States. ...
The Congress of the United States is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States of America. ...
Benjamin Banneker, originally Banna Ka, or Bannakay (November 9, 1731 – October 9, 1806) was an African-American astronomer, clockmaker, and publisher, and was instrumental in surveying the District of Columbia. ...
Dr. Benjamin Rush (December 24, 1745–April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. ...
Order: 3rd President Vice President: Aaron Burr; George Clinton Term of office: March 4, 1801 – March 4, 1809 Preceded by: John Adams Succeeded by: James Madison Date of birth: April 13, 1743 Place of birth: Shadwell, Virginia Date of death: July 4, 1826 Place of death: Charlottesville, Virginia First Lady...
The novel 1988 (a fictional work about the upcoming 1988 presidential election published in 1985) by then-Governor of Colorado Richard Lamm, includes a very similar proposal where the third-party presidential candidate in the novel proposes a cabinet-level Agency for Peace and Conflict Resolution with a Secretary of Peace who could challenge the Secretary of Defense when necessary. 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Governor of Colorado is the chief executive of the U.S. state of Colorado. ...
Richard Douglas Dick Lamm (born 1935 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American politician and lawyer. ...
See also Marianne Williamson is the author of A Return to Love. ...
Dennis Kucinich Dennis John Kucinich (born October 8, 1946) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, for the 10th District of Ohio (map). ...
External links - The Peace Alliance Movement Intro Clip/ Website
- Dennis Kucinich's Personal Site Discussing this legislation
- Marianne Williamson's Personal Intro and Link to the Peace Alliance
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