The Constitution was established to provide limited centralized government. It was established as an "agent" or servant of the States. It was to serve the common interests of the States so that they can act like a "Union" of states and not 13 independent states.
Published: Sunday, October 21st, 2012 @ 12:53 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The US republic is unique. Government can pass no law or take no action unless the authority for such law or action is specifically granted in the Constitution.
Published: Sunday, October 14th, 2012 @ 12:51 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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I remember a cartoon character years ago, that said, "We have met the enemy, and he is us." Radical Liberalism is home grown.
Published: Sunday, September 23rd, 2012 @ 10:59 pm
By: Marvin Sparks
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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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Jefferson believed it was up to the States, the parties who drafted and ratified the Constitution and thus created the federal government to stand up to the government when it exceeds constitutional bounds.
Published: Monday, July 16th, 2012 @ 6:05 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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What a sad day when the Supreme Court loses sight of what the Constitution's purpose is to protect the rights of individuals, and not to take them away.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 4:07 pm
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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"The Due Process Guarantee Act of 2011" was introduced in both the House and Senate to give the illusion that Members of Congress were actually listening to the concerns of We the People.
Published: Wednesday, April 4th, 2012 @ 9:58 pm
By: Jeff Lewis
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"It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern.
Published: Sunday, April 1st, 2012 @ 1:24 am
By: Jeff Lewis
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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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WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth.
Published: Monday, July 4th, 2011 @ 8:16 am
By: Diane Rufino
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It is acknowledged that the views and the writings philosopher John Locke played a crucial role in our Founders' view of liberty.
Published: Thursday, March 17th, 2011 @ 12:01 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The Constitution was also written to memorialize the notion that sovereign power rests with the individual and not with the federal government or any governmental agency.
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2011 @ 2:32 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Williamsburg, Virginia may have been the Commonwealth of Virginia's second capital, but in the colonial period of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the nation of the United States of America.
Published: Monday, December 7th, 2009 @ 12:29 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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