Manx

As I said, you are a citizen of Arizona. Look at your drivers license. And look up the definition of the term citizen.

There is no Federal Gov't other than that defined by the States which comprise it. This should be obvious. Any state can secede from the United States, as long as the 14th Amendment is ceither repealed or in some fashion, changed - which would only take a Constitutional Amendment, which is implemented by agreement of 2/3rds of the representatives of the States (or 3/4ths of the legislatures of the States).

I.E. there is no Federal Gov't without the States. Just as there is no U.N. without the states.

The U.S. does not lay claim over anything. The U.S. only "lays claim" to exactly as much as the States allow it to "lay claim". If the States decide that the U.S. should not be allowed to establish a national law, the States can prevent it. Same thing with the U.N.

You're not going to succeed in establishing a credible and significant difference between the democratic functions of the U.S. and the U.N. They simply operate on different scales.