In contemporary international politics the UN provides a universal space where representatives from the worlds' governments can meet and engage in diplomacy. This role of an international or universal space is an essential part of maintaining peace and encouraging cultural and economic exchange. A universal space also provides a means of establishing international policies that encourage the well-being of all mankind. Global warming is a problem that can only be solved if all nations of the world are involved, and an international space is the perfect place for such global policy making to take place.
Certain US political groups see the UN as an impotent body because it lacks the military might to truly maintain the peace. Unfortunately, some of these group believe that the US should therefore fulfill the role of international police. What these groups fail to understand is that the capital of the United States was moved to Washington D.C. for a reason, because no single state should own the governance of the other states. For a state to be the seat for the national government creates a temptation for that state to hold its own interests over the interests of the other states. Instead the United States Government is a meta-state entity, it exists beyond statehood. It's lack of embodiment allows it to remain relatively impartial. Likewise no single nation should attempt to govern the other nations. In so far as international policing is necessary it should be done by an international body.
The Democratic ideal is that the greatest authority belongs to the people, the lowest level of governance. Thus each successively higher level of government should have less and less authority so as not to interfere with the greater authority of the lower bodies. Federalism argues that the lesser authority of higher levels of government encourages a weak union, one lower body could suppress the authority of another lower body or worse an external body could suppress the authority of all the people. This argument is less effective if we distinguish authority from power. By authority I mean the right to make decisions and by power I mean the means of exerting force on others, usually military force. With the concepts of authority and power in place we can see that what the higher level government needs is not authority, but power. The power to protect lower government bodies from each other as well as protect them from external government bodies, the authority still should belong most with the people, with the lowest level of government. If we extend this philosophy to the top of governance, to the international or universal government, we can see that such a government should have the least authority of any government body but the most power so that such a body can ensure that lower bodies to not use their power to overreach their authority.
The universal government shall have NO right to add, remove, or modify in any way the powers listed here.
The universal government shall be obligated to maintain a standing military greater than any other.
The universal government shall be obligated to monopolize weapons of mass destruction and other advanced military hardware.
The universal government shall be obligated to protect the right of secession of any lower government body from any higher government body at any time for any reason. This right does not extend to secession from the universal government.
The universal government shall be obligated to protect the right of asylum for any individual at any time and for any reason. This may result in exile from the lands from which the individual seeks asylum, and should that individual ever trespass on those lands again his fate is in their hands. The universal government is also obligated to track the movements of such an individual and make the powers of any land he visits aware of his presence. The universal government is also obligated to provide employment within the universal government and essential living conditions for any individual that seeks asylum should they request it.
The universal government shall be obligated to provide for the air, water, food, shelter, health care, and education of ALL children.
The universal government shall NOT interfere with revolutions, terrorism, smuggling, wars between states, nor any other situation except to fulfill the obligations previously listed.
The universal government shall be obligated to maintain facilities in all lands where individuals can seek asylum and where the needs of children can be fulfilled.
The universal government shall have the right to request regular and brief private meeting with all individuals for the express purpose of ensuring that no individual's right to asylum and no child's right to wellbeing are covertly subverted.
The universal government shall have the right to collect taxes as a percentage of the annual expenditures on military hardware and soldier pay of any individual, nation, corporation, or other body to fund the execution of these powers. The universal government shall also have the right to audit the expenditures of any body that uses military hardware and to inspect the arsenal of any body that uses military hardware.