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What does Independence Day - the 4th of July - mean to you?
Published: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 9:37 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Happy Anniversary America !! This year, 2011, celebrates 218 years since the British signed the Treaty of Paris in 1783, formally abandoning any claims to the United States.
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:35 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Perhaps what Independence Day is all about is to reflect on our history and to rekindle our revolutionary spirit every year... our great love of liberty.
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:01 am
By: Diane Rufino
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To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught how to use them.
Published: Wednesday, December 8th, 2021 @ 10:02 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: Sunday, February 21st, 2021 @ 7:59 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Remarks by President Trump at the 400th Anniversary of the First Representative Legislative Assembly | Williamsburg, VA
Published: Friday, August 2nd, 2019 @ 7:18 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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This article discusses the English roots of our American liberty.
Published: Tuesday, February 13th, 2018 @ 12:44 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Each unconstitutional act usurps the powers delegated or reserved to the People and the States. Nature's Law supersedes man's law. Every failure to resist the tyranny posed by an unconstitutional act tightens the noose around freedom's neck.
Published: Friday, January 26th, 2018 @ 10:49 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Civitas Poll finds roughly three in four N.C. voters back school choice, with higher levels of support from black voters
Published: Monday, January 30th, 2017 @ 12:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The John Locke Foundation recently commemorated the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta (Latin for “Great Charter”).
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 10:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I recently returned from the United Kingdom, where there's much talk of historical commemorations.
Published: Monday, July 13th, 2015 @ 8:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new report from FeedomWorks gives North Carolina's asset forfeiture program an A-, the second highest score in the country. In explaining North Carolina's high score, the report cites two factors: (1) "The government can only forfeit property if the owner has been convicted of a crime;" and...
Published: Sunday, June 21st, 2015 @ 3:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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And to kick off the celebrations, over at the Liberty and Law blog Justin Lyons has posted an interesting discussion of Winston Churchill's views on the Great Charter and its role in British and American history. Lyons illustrates his discussion with many stirring quotations from Churchill's...
Published: Tuesday, April 14th, 2015 @ 7:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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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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The Petition of Right of 1628 is a statement of the objectives of the 1628 English legal reform movement that led to the Civil War and deposing of Charles I in 1649.
Published: Sunday, July 3rd, 2011 @ 12:22 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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