[PuNcH]

If all the countries of the world shared the same democratic values what would be the problem with a global federation of sorts with constitutionally limited powers?

This is too vague and meaningless to be of any value to Americans and their inalienable rights. If you are suggesting that the UN or some new world order is going in the direction of acknowledging inalienable rights I'd really like to see the proof.

The soviet union had a constitution, what they called republicanism, a list of "rights", democracy. -- No God. Nothing inalienable.

[garbanzo]

Essentially the point is that if the rest of the world adopted the US constitution or something similar in the essential points what objection do we have to a world government based on that? I didn't offer to write up a world constitution but the idea is that as long my rights are protected I really don't care a lot about which flag flies or who's on the back of my currency - virtually no one does except "nationalists" who, oddly, are willing to kill for those things - not ideas or freedom, but stamps, currency, and flags.