I think the author took an idea and twisted it to fit some facts. That sentence was a little backward on purpose.
The idea of the UN is to make everybody (states) equal, make the rick states pay and run everything from the UN.
The UN is organized on the principles of Marxism.
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The UN was designed to be a super-forum for diplomacy and provide a framework for certain levels of voluntary collective action. Of course, Americans despise it because it's a miserable socialist failure attempting to enslave everyone on earth.
On the other hand, the United States was Constituted sovereign for specific purposes by the sovereign people and their several sovereign states. The Constitution with the Bill of Rights and later Amendments defined and limited the power (sovereignty) of the Federal Government while reserving all other power to the sovereign states and ultimately, The People.
That is the beauty of our federal government as opposed to the repulsiveness of the UN's "system".
Tragically, we are not the republic our founding fathers crafted with the Constitution. The sovereign states have lost their federal voice with the direct election of senators, thus invalidating the "Great Compromise" key to the Constitution. The Legislative Branch acts way outside of the Constitution by abusing the Interstate Commerce Clause. And the Judicial Branch legislates from the bench through the false doctrine of Judicial Review and just plain Judicial Decree.
Even with all of that dysfunction our system of government is vastly superior to anything the UN can conceive. And the average American knows this.
I do not understand how the average American knows of the superiority of our government over all others. It certainly is not from the public school system. And it certainly is not through the author's specious fractured comparison of perceived Calhoun/Lincoln government philosophies to the UN abomination. But the average American knows he has a government and the UN isn't a government.
The average American does not need a fellowship to know the UN is his enemy and the enemy of freedom.
Think old Calhoun is getting shanked here a bit.....