United Nations: on Government Reform

Jesse Helms: US decentralizes while Europe federalizes

This is why Americans reject the idea of a sovereign UN that presumes to be the source of legitimacy for the US Government's policies, foreign or domestic. There is only one source of legitimacy of the American government's policies-and that is the consent of the American people.

If the UN respects the sovereign rights of the American people, and serves them as an effective tool of diplomacy, it will earn and deserve their respect and support. But a UN that seeks to impose its presumed authority on the American people without their consent begs for confrontation and eventual US withdrawal.