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There are many people who overlook the brilliance of the US Constitution. They argue that it is outdated and unfit to adequately govern such a modern nation as ours in the 21st century.
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:30 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Government is best and most responsive to the individual when it is closest to them. We're talking about the local, the county, and even the state level.
Published: Monday, December 12th, 2022 @ 9:23 am
By: Diane Rufino
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A Proposed State Sovereignty Resolution (“A Re-Declaration of Independence”) for North Carolina
Published: Tuesday, April 27th, 2021 @ 6:17 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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This article is dedicated to our great Founding Fathers - men who had the courage, the foresight, and the wisdom to secure the freedom that I exercise and enjoy every single day. - Diane Rufino
Published: Saturday, April 24th, 2021 @ 9:01 am
By: Diane Rufino
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This article is dedicated to our great Founding Fathers - men who had the courage, the foresight, and the wisdom to secure the freedom that I exercise and enjoy every single day. - Diane Rufino
Published: Monday, February 22nd, 2021 @ 9:06 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The case District of Columbia v. Heller is the landmark Supreme Court case decided in 2008, and written by the late great conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, which finally looked at the roots and origins of the Second Amendment.
Published: Wednesday, July 17th, 2019 @ 3:32 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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This article goes to a question that I have posed for many years now: Is a society so predicated on Individual Liberty doomed to destroy itself?
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2019 @ 1:25 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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December 15 marks a very special day in our founding history - On that date in 1791, the first 14 states (Vermont had just been admitted to the Union as the 14th state), ratified the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution, known collectively as our Bill of Rights.
Published: Monday, January 21st, 2019 @ 3:53 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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What do I know about you?
Published: Thursday, June 23rd, 2016 @ 10:06 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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If we all have the same rights as human beings, is it really free or is there a price that must be paid by someone?
Published: Saturday, March 26th, 2016 @ 3:37 am
By: Bobby Tony
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This is a resolution to propose that Article I, Section 4 be removed from the NC state constitution, in part to acknowledge that the federal government unconstitutionally required the provision and in part to reassert state soverignty
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 4:39 am
By: Diane Rufino
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An amendment to replace the States' influence in the federal government since the 17th Amendment was adopted.
Published: Sunday, July 26th, 2015 @ 6:14 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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As the Resolutions Chair for the Pitt County GOP, I wrote a series of resolutions that I plan to present at the upcoming 2014 Pitt County GOP Convention, on March 8.
Published: Tuesday, March 4th, 2014 @ 3:42 am
By: Diane Rufino
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When the original 13 states came together to discuss the possibility of establishing a confederacy, at the urging of Benjamin Franklin ("Join or Die"), they did so with a great deal of hope, but also a great deal of trepidation.
Published: Sunday, February 16th, 2014 @ 6:16 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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For years I shied away from this. I thought everyone knew it. I assumed bringing it up would only show how shallow I am. After all, we are all Americans and knowing it should be like a genetic appendage.
Published: Thursday, February 6th, 2014 @ 6:52 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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One recent 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 signed by the delegates who attended.
Published: Saturday, October 12th, 2013 @ 9:28 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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To know your Constitution - questions for Constitution Day (to learn about the Constitution).
Published: Wednesday, September 4th, 2013 @ 4:59 am
By: Diane Rufino
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On January 16, 2013, President Obama signed 23 Executive Orders which he claimed are aimed at reducing gun violence.
Published: Thursday, March 7th, 2013 @ 12:07 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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December 15 was Bill of Rights Day. It marks the 221st anniversary of the day when the first ten amendments - our Bill of Rights - were ratified in 1791.
Published: Monday, December 31st, 2012 @ 10:47 am
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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This is install considers: the the first ten in the Bill of Rights, an overview of the Constitution, and then the remaining seventeen of the Bill of Rights.
Published: Sunday, September 12th, 2010 @ 10:20 am
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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