Is it unpatriotic for citizens of a country to support an to support a system of global government?
No. For example, the Founding Fathers of the United States, America’s original patriots, created a country based on the concepts of citizenship and individual sovereignty. They stressed that it is the right and duty of citizens to create governing bodies that best serve their interest. Civic participation, not blind obedience to a particular incarnation of government, is the truest patriotic calling. For proof, just look to the U.S. Declaration of Independence, which reads: “…To secure these rights [of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness], Governments are instituted by Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. … it is the Right of the People … to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” And recall the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen: “…The aim of all political associations is the preservat
