Government programs such as welfare and other social means-tested programs characterize very well the government's general policy towards poverty: Make individuals "comfortable" in their poverty rather than incentivize them to become self-sufficient.
Published: Saturday, October 6th, 2018 @ 9:41 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The United States is a constitutional republic. It is not a democracy, as most people believe.
Published: Saturday, September 29th, 2018 @ 8:53 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The federal courts have become political, rather apolitical, which is what they were intended to be.
Published: Wednesday, September 26th, 2018 @ 5:07 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Patrick Henry to the Virginia Convention to Ratify the US Constitution, in June 1788: "The great object is that every man be armed."
Published: Saturday, June 10th, 2017 @ 7:04 am
By: Diane Rufino
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George Washington once warned: "If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
Published: Wednesday, June 7th, 2017 @ 1:08 am
By: Diane Rufino
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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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It has been suggested that the expansion of free market think tanks on our college campuses is educationally harmful.
Published: Tuesday, December 20th, 2016 @ 7:12 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Despite the 4th Circuit decision striking down the NC Voter ID law, there are options that our Governor, Pat McCrory, and our state legislature can take to provide reasonable and common-sense measures at polling places next month.
Published: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016 @ 5:35 am
By: Diane Rufino
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This short article is intended to alert the reader to the importance of the Tenth Amendment and hopefully inspire him or her to join the Tenth Amendment Movement and help bring government power back to the States
Published: Friday, August 5th, 2016 @ 1:12 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The States, acting voluntarily and in convention, entered into the Union by adopting a social compact, the US Constitution. The features of a compact provide great protection for American liberty.
Published: Friday, July 22nd, 2016 @ 12:05 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The humanities may not be dead, but they are certainly moribund on many college campuses. Once the crown jewels of higher education, now they are valued about as much as knockoffs at a pawn shop
Published: Monday, July 11th, 2016 @ 2:19 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The Founding Fathers might have been unable to create the foundations of a new American nation had they operated in today's climate of federal government harassment and intrusion into citizen privacy, a constitutional lawyer says
Published: Wednesday, March 16th, 2016 @ 4:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Diane Rufino proposes a solution to the Social Security problem, by asking Congress to legislatively define SS as a property right
Published: Tuesday, October 13th, 2015 @ 1:34 am
By: Diane Rufino
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As I am sure you know, Carolina Journal is the monthly newspaper of the John Locke Foundation. Formed in 1990, the organization is named after the great English political philosopher who penned the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina in 1669 and the English Bill of Rights 20 years later.
Published: Friday, October 2nd, 2015 @ 8:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A devilish plot is afoot to impose new national taxes on the American People.
Published: Monday, September 14th, 2015 @ 2:44 am
By: Publius Huldah
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California Attorney General Kamala Harris has attracted a lot of media attention, and not just because, as the President says, "She...happens to be, by far, the best looking attorney general in the country." When she was still District Attorney in San Francisco, Harris made headlines by...
Published: Thursday, September 10th, 2015 @ 2:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The "Balanced Budget Amendment" movement (Article V Convention) is an insidious plot to impose a new national tax!!
Published: Saturday, August 22nd, 2015 @ 5:45 pm
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: Tuesday, July 28th, 2015 @ 3:24 pm
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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Tomorrow is the day we celebrate our nation's founding-and the first time that a nation was deliberately founded on reason and the rule of law instead of on accidents of history. The central question of this article is "how are the founding and related topics treated in today's academia?" It is a...
Published: Sunday, July 12th, 2015 @ 11:57 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry delivered one of the most important speeches in our country's history.
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 12:30 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The term “Founding Fathers” of the United States includes many great and courageous and wisely forward-thinking men.
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 3:59 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Timeline of Events Leading to the Revolutionary War and beyond to its conclusion, and through the anti-climatic birthing pains.
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 3:54 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Original documents should play an important role in American history education. That's the approach from Roger Beckett, executive director of the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University. Beckett explained his preference for original historical documents over textbooks during a recent presentation...
Published: Monday, April 27th, 2015 @ 12:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Right-leaning lawyers and legal analysts agree that the courts are a vital venue for preserving constitutional rights. But they note a surprising trend of conservative support for using judicial activism to achieve that aim rather than the traditional conservative deference to state and federal...
Published: Thursday, April 16th, 2015 @ 7:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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 the federal government back to some sort of constitutional limits, calls Nullifiers "kooks."
Published: Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013 @ 11:58 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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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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An education in law is meant to teach the law and legal reasoning. To learn basic skills is the aim of primary and secondary schooling. Yet here at Leiden Law (part of Leiden University, the Netherlands' oldest and most prestigious university), we are increasingly sacrificing the law to teach...
Published: Friday, September 6th, 2013 @ 4:16 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The government has no legitimate powers that were not initially granted to it under the Constitution.
Published: Saturday, August 24th, 2013 @ 11:52 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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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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Considering that the foundation of government in our country is based on the Constitution, wouldn't it make more sense to teach lawyers how best to preserve its integrity rather than inspire them to help dismantle it?
Published: Saturday, July 6th, 2013 @ 11:02 am
By: Diane Rufino
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A year ago, Duke Cheston of the Pope Center criticized a class in political science at North Carolina State University. Because its presentation of the American political system was clearly biased, his story was titled "Evil Republicans 101." Now we have come across another section of the same...
Published: Sunday, May 26th, 2013 @ 10:05 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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