As I see it, the real problem is bigger and bigger "Government". The American Revolution was an ingenious thing, as it left the majority of power with the States and not with the Federal Government. We are a "Democratic Republic", not a democracy, which means that your rights end where mine begin. The idea being that, even if the majority want a thing, if it infringes on the consitutional rights of even a single person, it is against the law. Yeah, things aint the way they should be here, but then a portion of the problem is that we are daily, willingly handing over the power of the indivudual States to the Federal Government. The very thing that acted as the check against megalomaniacal leadership is eroding day by day here. If anything, the example that is the US system should *prove* to anyone paying attention *why* it is that we, the people of the world, should avoid giving more power to an even larger governmental institution like the UN. They will not solve the worlds woes...they will *become* the worlds woes the more power we allow them.

Smaller government with the appropriate checks and balances...that is what the intention was here in the US. Pretty far from that, aint we?
You want to see *that* on a global scale??? I shudder...