Also as in conventional democracies, conformity of all policies and actions with these fundamental rights will be adjudicated by a global constitutional court.
The members of the global court will initially be nominated from among the most respected international jurists around the world. A slate of global constitutional judges will be appended to the initial treaty enacting the global democracy. These initial judges will then be subject to a ratifying election, by simple majority vote, in three equal cohorts, staggered 2, 4, and 6 years after the global democracy begins.
Thereafter, all judges will serve until they opt to retire, except that any judge may be recalled at any time by a supermajority vote (such as 2/3, 3/4, or 4/5) of the world’s people via liquid democracy.
New judges may be nominated either by current judges or by popular, online deliberation and liquid democracy, and will be elected to office by popular vote via liquid democracy.
In this structure, we seek to balance public input (through elections and recall) with insulation from political pressure (through lifetime appointments), to avoid the breakdown of democracy that arises when judges are not accountable.