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Where Are Today’s Sons of Liberty?
by Diane Rufino We talk a lot today about how the Constitution no longer means what it used to and it no longer protects individual freedom and liberty as it used to. We say this because a government...
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Limit Federal Spending through Nullification and State Escrow Accounts
by Diane Rufino The government has no legitimate powers that were not initially granted to it under the Constitution. There is no provision anywhere, nor is there any implied right under the...
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Nullification: Comments to a Harsh Critic
by Diane Rufino I wrote an article in support of Nullification (“Limit Federal Spending through Nullification and State Escrow Accounts”). A man responded with this comment: “You propose a...
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Constitution Day 2013
by Diane Rufino Last Tuesday was Constitution Day – September 17. It marks the day that the Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 concluded and the final draft of Constitution was...
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Keep the Federal Government in Check with NULLIFICATION – Not Liberty Amendments
by Diane Rufino, October 10, 2013 Mark Levin, who wrote an excellent book “The Liberty Amendments” to urge states to call for an Article V Convention to propose constitutional amendments to restore...
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Two Ways of Educating
by Diane Rufino, December 24, 2013 At some schools, usually independent (not accepting federal dollars) and religious, students read old books, including Plato’s Republic. In the Republic,...
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Nullification vs. Article V Constitutional Convention: Where is the Honest...
by Diane Rufino, January 5, 2014 When the original 13 states came together to discuss the possibility of establishing a confederacy, at the urging of Benjamin Franklin (“Join or Die”),...
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RESOLUTION TO CHALLENGE OBAMACARE AS AN ABUSE OF FEDERAL POWER
by Diane Rufino, Deputy Director of the NC Tenth Amendment Center and Resolutions Chair of the Pitt County GOP. The following resolution will be presented at the 2014 Pitt County GOP Convention on...
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RESOLUTION TO CHALLENGE OBAMACARE AS A VIOLATION OF THE 13th AMENDMENT
by Diane Rufino, Deputy Director of the NC Tenth Amendment Center and Resolutions Chair of the Pitt County GOP. The following resolution will be presented at the 2014 Pitt County GOP Convention on...
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A Government That Wants to Control Us, Not Represent Us
by Diane Rufino George S. Liberty recently wrote a rant about government on his blogsite after he watched a news clip about Jonathan Gruber, the controversial architect of Obamacare. His theme was...
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NULLIFICATION: The Power to Right Constitutional Wrongs
by Diane Rufino, July 9, 2015 THOMAS JEFFERSON wondered how the country would respond in the case its government passed a law that was clearly unconstitutional. As Secretary of State under our...
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THE FEDERAL JUDICIARY HAS BECOME DANGEROUS & DESPOTIC: A CONSTITUTIONAL...
by Diane Rufino, July 11, 2015 US CONSTITUTION: AMENDMENT PROPOSAL An amendment to replace the States’ influence in the federal government since the 17th Amendment was adopted. “…If no remedy of the...
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TAKE THIS MONUMENT DOWN!
by Diane Rufino While we’re heading down the dangerous slippery slope of government-sponsored censorship surrounding the display of the Confederate flag and certain Civil War...
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Esteemed Ghosts from our Past
by Diane Rufino If you are ever confused as to the order of things, the emphasis of individual rights with respect to government, the rights of States with respect to the federal...
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INDEPENDENCE DAY: The Story of Us
by Diane Rufino, July 4, 2016 Independence Day – What it really means…. What does Independence Day – the 4th of July – mean to you? Is it just a holiday to eat, drink, and light off fireworks? Do...
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Compact Theory: Security for American Liberty
by Diane Rufino, July 18, 2016 A contract is a promise, or set of promises, between willing parties. The law of contracts is a body of law as old as the Anglo-American division of law and...
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SAVE THE REPUBLIC! Rethinking the American Union of States for the...
by Diane Rufino (citing Donald Livingston in his book Rethinking the American Union for the Twenty-First Century), July 26, 2016 The purpose of this article is three-fold: First, I want to be...
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History Speaks Through the Monuments on the National Mall
by Diane Rufino, January 21, 2017 Yesterday I visited the Jefferson Memorial to commune with my favorite Founding Father. Jefferson is perhaps the single reason I am so very proud to be an American....
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2017 Independence Day Reflection
by Diane Rufino, July 4, 2017 “My country, ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died; Land of the Pilgrims’ pride, from ev’ry mountainside, Let freedom ring!”...
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Those Who Are Tearing Down Confederate Monument Are Forcing Selective Amnesia...
by Diane Rufino, July 27, 2017 In this era when Southern (Confederate) leaders, symbols, generals, buildings, etc are being erased from our memory and history, and vilified in our...
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