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Nullification is the theory that says that actions of the federal government that are passed, imposed, or exercised in excess or abuse of the express authority granted in the Constitution are not enforceable.
Published: Sunday, July 28th, 2013 @ 8:52 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The North Carolina chapter of the NAACP is spearheading a weekly series of protests called "Moral Mondays" directed against Republican-supported legislation...
Published: Friday, May 17th, 2013 @ 8:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Self-governing individuals are necessary to have a self-governing society. That is, only a moral and disciplined people are capable of being governed by a limited government.
Published: Sunday, April 14th, 2013 @ 10:37 am
By: Diane Rufino
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On February 12, 2013, Candidate Obama delivered his 5th State of the Union Address, an address concocted of misstatements and fantasies crafted to embolden the low-information voter / citizen that is over half of his electoral base that re-elected the Candidate to the presidency of the United State.
Published: Thursday, February 14th, 2013 @ 9:30 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Josiah Bailey co-authored the Conservative Manifesto, a plan for national economic recovery during the Great Depression. Image courtesy of the North Carolina Office of Archives and History, Raleigh, NC.
Published: Thursday, January 3rd, 2013 @ 5:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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But I have serious problems in his (Abraham Lincoln) legal and Constitutional justifications for the Civil War.
Published: Monday, November 19th, 2012 @ 3:46 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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It is easy to see how our Founder's were influenced by John Locke when designing our government and drafting our founding documents.
Published: Sunday, November 18th, 2012 @ 1:44 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Last year, I taught classes on the Constitution, Our Founding Fathers, Our Founding Principles, The Federal Court System, The Supreme Court, and Judicial Activism.
Published: Saturday, November 17th, 2012 @ 6:53 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Well, the election is over. It looks like the NCGOP staff has gone on vacation, since the web site does not appear to have been updated since October 25.
Published: Thursday, November 15th, 2012 @ 7:47 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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One of the more interesting outcomes of Tuesday's election in North Carolina was the contrast between Pat McCrory's 12-point blowout victory for governor and the much closer races for Council of State.
Published: Friday, November 9th, 2012 @ 9:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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History teaches us that the Ku Klux Klan was a violent organization aimed at terrorizing and intimidating former slaves. They operated as a secret society - a bunch of cowards with white gowns and masks, often carrying guns and a noose.
Published: Sunday, October 28th, 2012 @ 1:01 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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New York Times readers learned in early August of Steve Cooksey, the Charlotte-area "diabetes warrior," who has sued the North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition because it has tried to censor Cooksey's blog touting the health benefits of the low-carb, high-protein "paleo" diet.
Published: Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012 @ 3:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The NC Institute for Constitutional Law (NCICL) recently published an article about nullification, asserting that it not a legitimate constitutional remedy.
Published: Sunday, September 23rd, 2012 @ 4:41 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Our Founders made sure they provided for the proper avenues to counter a government that evinces such a design and even provided for the right to abolish that government.
Published: Saturday, June 2nd, 2012 @ 10:08 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Obamacare has the potential to transform this country into one that dangerously curbs our fundamental freedoms, socializes wealth, status, and risk, and puts us at the mercy and the discretion of a government that is more interested in social engineering than the individual rights.
Published: Monday, February 13th, 2012 @ 12:12 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The need for government, plain and simple, is because absolute freedom is impossible.
Published: Tuesday, December 27th, 2011 @ 6:11 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Calvin Coolidge once said: "To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race."
Published: Saturday, September 17th, 2011 @ 11:49 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Within these gathered groups of information from Diane Rufino, we are provided a timeline to American Civil War, and the Resolutions of Secession from South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia.
Published: Thursday, September 15th, 2011 @ 11:27 am
By: Diane Rufino
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We don't need the Supreme Court to tell us its interpretation of the Constitution. We have the very words and writings of the very men who drafted our Constitution and created our government.
Published: Wednesday, September 14th, 2011 @ 1:57 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The Declaration of Independence wasn't intended as a one-time "Get Out of Jail Free" card !!
Published: Sunday, September 11th, 2011 @ 7:25 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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What does the word "Secession" mean?
Published: Saturday, September 10th, 2011 @ 10:26 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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I was struck by how many people want to learn such topics but just don't know where to go to be educated or how to trust that they will be taught the right stuff. But one question that came up almost every class period and by every group was this: "Do the states have the right to secede?"
Published: Saturday, September 10th, 2011 @ 12:13 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; It is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
Published: Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 @ 1:42 am
By: Diane Rufino
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As we initiate this ongoing series, this category on what made this a once great nation, we examine our nation's first document.
Published: Friday, September 3rd, 2010 @ 9:00 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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