What do the UN Charter and the US Constitution have in common? --- For quite some time, I thought that the headline of the United Nations Charter preamble ("We the peoples of the United Nations") was the original contribution of the American poet and Department of State public servant, Archibald MacLeish. He is credited also with the first line of the preamble of the UNESCO Constitution.

Now, with this speech, I realize that there is no need for a poet to get inspiration from a ready-made construct available in the Constitution of the United States ("We the people of the United States.")

It's a small world, isn't it?

Source author: Petru Dumitriu PetruD@diplomacy.edu