It has been "blog-talked":http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/1316.html about already in extenso, so this is just my quick referrer to a "must-read":http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/jmoore/secondsuperpower.html for those who haven't found out about it already.
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this is democracy as opposed to federalism, the current U.S. system of gov't.
The founding fathers had many reasons for prefering federalism, which is I believe what the author is really speaking against.