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On Monday, May 6, 2024, at the Beaufort County Commissioners' general meeting, Commissioner Stan Deatherage sponsored the Constitutional right of a Beaufort County citizen "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Published: Wednesday, May 15th, 2024 @ 12:41 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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If we cannot elect whomever we choose, our Constitution, our freedom, and our country are kaput. It will be time to agree to live as surfs of the authoritarian government or mount a second American Revolutionary War. I don't find either of these options appealing, do you?
Published: Tuesday, August 30th, 2022 @ 11:56 pm
By: Raynor James
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One of the signature freedoms singled out for special protection in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is the freedom of association. The amendment forbids the government from abridging “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.”
Published: Thursday, January 13th, 2022 @ 12:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Those “spending rules” are codified in the North Carolina Constitution and have been since 1776. Our system of government could not run without them.
Published: Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 @ 9:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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American Founding Father and second U.S. President John Adams famously included in the 1780 Massachusetts state constitution the concept of “a government of laws, not of men.”
Published: Thursday, January 6th, 2022 @ 12:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On September 17, 1787, the American founders signed the U.S. Constitution. The greatest strength of our Bill of Rights and Constitution is that it places limits on government.
Published: Monday, September 21st, 2020 @ 7:54 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law (“NCICL”) offered its assistance to Governor Cooper and local governments in rescinding or revising orders unconstitutionally restricting the rights of the people to free speech and to assembly.
Published: Friday, April 17th, 2020 @ 2:31 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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In 1788 the Hillsborough Convention convened to consider ratification of the US Constitution and also to approve an “unalterable” seat of government. They did neither.
Published: Wednesday, June 5th, 2019 @ 2:08 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution of the United States, they feared the possibility of partisanship overtaking rights-based government
Published: Friday, March 30th, 2018 @ 2:55 pm
By: Daily Wire
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For most of the 241 years since North Carolina adopted its first Constitution there have been arguments about the proper balance and separations of power between the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government
Published: Wednesday, December 13th, 2017 @ 8:14 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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It's such an integral part of the Constitution, adopted during the earliest years of government under that document, that few people ponder the prospect of a constitution without a Bill of Rights
Published: Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017 @ 4:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, a member of the State Board of Education, opposes the lawsuit the board announced it will file challenging the constitutionality of House Bill 17, a measure passed in mid-December by the General Assembly reorganizing several aspects of state government
Published: Thursday, December 29th, 2016 @ 2:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A growing number of police officers, military members of all ranks, firefighters and American citizens who value their constitutional rights are voicing their desires for the impeachment of two of the federal government's top law enforcement officials.
Published: Monday, October 17th, 2016 @ 11:53 pm
By: Jim Kouri
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Houston! We have a problem. Well, actually it's not just Houston. It's Atlanta, New York, Philly, Detroit, LA, Portland, Miami, and every single city, town, village, and hamlet in the USA.
Published: Saturday, April 2nd, 2016 @ 6:04 am
By: Rod Eccles
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Our Founding Fathers remind us that that the Constitution was subordinate to the Principles and Rights enshrined in our Declaration of Independence. The Individual trumps government.
Published: Monday, February 22nd, 2016 @ 3:47 am
By: Diane Rufino
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When the framers of our state’s Constitution were assigning duties and responsibilities to the various branches of government they wisely delegated to the voters decision-making responsibility for should government incurring debt.
Published: Sunday, June 28th, 2015 @ 10:47 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Friday, an unelected federal judge violated the foundational principles of this great nation. In 1787, at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia and later by ratification, the states relinquished a limited amount of power to a federal government.
Published: Sunday, October 12th, 2014 @ 12:09 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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True Conservatives understand why our country is falling apart. It's not that we lack the power and the ability to be the country we used to be; it's that our citizenry has willfully and ignorantly abandoned a moral imperative to defend our American ideals by living those ideals.
Published: Thursday, October 9th, 2014 @ 10:45 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Good constitutional structures are necessary, but not sufficient, to protect the American system of government. The nation needs civic virtue as well. That's the argument Robert George put forward in the 2014 John W. Pope Lecture at N.C. State University. George is McCormick professor of...
Published: Monday, May 19th, 2014 @ 8:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Both the federal and state constitutions protect the right of North Carolinians to petition their government for redress of grievances.
Published: Tuesday, June 18th, 2013 @ 11:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When a curious woman approached Benjamin Franklin as he was leaving the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September 1787 and asked him what kind of government the delegates had given the people, he replied: "...A Republic, Ma'am, if you can keep it."
Published: Tuesday, November 6th, 2012 @ 10:05 am
By: Diane Rufino
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For the last 2 years many of you have read my rants, exercising my right of free speech, against the present Administration.
Published: Monday, November 5th, 2012 @ 2:48 pm
By: Don Heres
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The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and it trumps state constitutions and state laws. Does this mean the federal government can tell state governments what to do?
Published: Saturday, March 31st, 2012 @ 11:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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